Tonight on ID we explore the culture of exiles. The disfranchisement that have opted to walk out on the world and hope for a batter tomorrow. Three cultures, each with very different answers to a society to busy to care. Outside the city we have the Beachers, below the Morlocks, and in the heart of Tiergarten the Church of Divine Sanity.
I’m your host Lucius Abercrombie, our guests tonight include TKU Deviant Psychology Professor Garrison Frock-LaCroix, and Pamela St.Jude speaker for the New National Party, and this is Info/Data. Alright, lets jump right in shall we, Pamela, I see you already have a question.
PStC: No I do not have a question, Lucius. I have a statement. I don’t see how you can include savages like the Beachers in a discussion on separatist societies. They are parasites, almost more so than Morlocks who at least have the decency to stay in the sewers where they belong.
GFL: The Beachers are just another symptom of a society that can no longer coddle all it’s citizens. They choose to live in the Wastes, there is hardly a way to separate one further from society.
PStC: How convenient for a professor from the Arcology to talk about what it means to separate from society. How many security screenings will you have to go through before they let you back into your gilded palace?
GFL: Well Pamela, if you must know three, but I live in the Mission District not the Arcology. As I understand it though while you claim residence in Little Dubai, the NNP keeps several posh homes on the TK side of the wall for their speaker and high ranking members. However, to stay on topic, while you call Beachers parasites the Waste Gangs have never attacked the city, only peoples inside what they consider their territory.
LA: Lets explore the idea of separatists as parasites. Lets talk about the Morlocks.
GFL: While I understand the city’s news organizations have dubbed them Morlocks, they actually use terms such as Sewer Breed to describe themselves.
LA: Why the disconnect do you think?
GFL: Interesting question. Sewer Breed implies they were raised in and by the sewers. That it might be a sustainable environment. Where as the term Morlock evokes ideas of deformed and depraved peoples no longer fit for society. While it might be a way to marginalize a people or culture, I really suspect that the term Morlock took off simply because it sells better with the average person.
PStC: And are you going to tell us that these Sewer Bread people are some underground nobility and not bottom feeders?
GFL: Hardly. By their own admission we have multiple accounts of the Sewer Breed taping power and water. Generally connectivity isn’t an issue due to the municipal network but power for electronic devices are another story. There has been a fair amount of speculation that a number of Sewer Breed are actually employed by city infrastructure.
PStC: The Morlocks are a filthy people. I don’t understand how any one of them could work a legitimate job.
GFL: Don’t you think we would have more reported colonies if the trench workers weren’t at least sympathetic?
LA: Sympathetic to a cause does not make you part of it.
PStC: Thank you Lucius. The NNP has advocated for stricter monitoring standards of all government employees. It’s the weak minded left that allows for this kind of corruption.
GFL: I’m not here to talk politics or policies. Lets try to stay focused on the subject.
PStC: This is the subject. If we had stronger state controls these fringe groups would not be an issue. We should have police swarming the sewers, burn the infection out.
GFL: Then why has the NNP brought three bills to the floor in the last session to strip funding for public services.
PStC: Those bills reduce the tax burden and do not target personal levels within police and fire.
LA: What about the separatist movement that tries to have it both ways, the Church of Divine Sanity?
PStC: You can’t be serious. Divine Sanity is just a collection of xenophobic egg heads looking for tax breaks.
GFL: The church was founded just over three years ago and has seen it’s following grow consistently each year. Formed after the Bison Fever epidermic, I think there is a large xenophobic aspect to the movement. I think the disconnect comes between the rheteric, which is fairly stock Islomo-Christian, and practice which enforces full bio-hazard precautions for members.
PStC: Islomo-Christian? How can you compare this collection of paranoids to actual religions?
GFL: Simple, I took the time to sit in on one of their services before tonight’s show.
LA: They allowed this?
GFL: To the extent they allow any outsider. They maintain a media center which broadcasts their services outside the church.
LA: Interesting stuff. More ID after the break.
