The Therapy Zone

Active Resistance

   Since his arrival here in the Village, No.6 has tried to escape, and has poked his nose in where it's not wanted more time than I care to remember. But he's not been alone you know, far from it. There are those Jammers, people who used to make up plots of escape, generally to make mischief in order to confuse the observers.

   Then there are those individuals who have worked against the village, and those who said they would, if they were given a second chance! Like No.12, and No.24, to name but two, and Monique-No.50 who worked with No.6 to put a stop to an assassination plot against No.2, makes three! And of course more citizens resist more than you might think, otherwise there would be no need for aversion therapy. There would be no Unmutuals in the Village, and therefore no need for "Instant Social Conversion!"

   Just because the village gives off an almost holiday resort atmosphere, doesn't mean that everyone is happy here. This is not Shangri-la, this is the Village!

Observers report

   No.6 wore his numbered badge twice. Once as he was leaving the hospital on the morning after his arrival here in the Village, a badge which incidentally he took off the lapel of his blazer and tossed into the back of the taxi. The second occasion was when he impersonated No.12-Curtis.

   But No.6 isn't the only citizen seen not to wear his or indeed her numbered badge. The Professor here is one, along with his wife Madam Professor, I never can figure out how they were never forced to wear their badges. And another is the Butler, who said he lost it. But I believe he, like No.6, threw it away! And finally the doctor in Arrival, he doesn't wear a numbered badge either! I don't know how they are allowed to get away with it? Mind you, even though No.6 doesn't wear his numbered badge, everyone in the Village appears to know who he is!

   Is it not the case that at very important ceremonies No.2 always wears the Great Seal of Office, as seen during the Appreciation Day ceremony? Well why wasn't No.2 wearing it during the elction, or during the dissolition of the our-going Coincil in Free For All? After all, isn't Appreciation Day just an opportunity of retiring the former No.2, to bring in a new No.2, and during that ceremony The Great Seal of office is worn by both No.2's as part of that ceremony, the departing No.2 and the new No.2. And is that not what is happening here, the old No.2 voted out, and the new No.2 voted in. The "ways and means" might be different, but the principle and effect is just the same.

   The Butcher with the sharpest knife, has the warmest heart - I get the point No.6 was making, but cannot find the phrase, or indeed anything like it in any book of quotations! The phrase might not have an origin.

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