Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 56 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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STRANGE SUICIDE blue eyes brightening. “You mean you think the Heresy League might try to get hold of it?” Kristofr spread out his hands. “It’s a thought we shouldn’t overlook, I feel. With the Detector to stem all outbreaks of mass violence our system has remained stable for the last half century, but if the Detector’s beams could be made useless in some way, and if the Heretics dis- covered how this could be done, then we might easily have trouble on our hands.”’ General Lee frowned. “Those accursed Heretics! Why in the name of Saturn’s rings should they want to buck against the system? Can’t they understand that we've got a stable society and a stable economy for the first time since the world began? They fill themselves up with a lot of fool notions about liberty of the individual, read a lot of fool books that sur- vived from pre-Germwar days and think they’re heroic just because they try and pit themselves against the World State. Why do they do it?” He rounded on his assistant 17 and banged his fist down heavily on the top of the vast silicoid desk. “Why?” Kristofr grinned. “If that isn’t a rhetorical question I can give you an answer,’ he replied. “I’ve been studying up on the history of the Heresy League for the last year Or so.” “Go ahead, then.”’ Kristofr folded his hands on his lap. “Well, they’re loosely organised because they have to be—our Security men being as efficient as they are. The idea of the League, apparently, is to bring about some form of revolution. League members feel that our system of three main categor- ies—Drectorz, IntlectUlz and ManUIz—is unfair; they feel that the efforts we make to destroy all evidence of the past are turning the race into slaves because—they say— people are growing to accept the system as it stands and are incapable of thinking in terms of progress, since their know- ledge of the long struggles mankind made before the formation of the World State is so limited.” “What rubbish,” snorted conmmcloooks.comn