Number 6
"Elections, in this place?"
"Of
course, we make our choice every twelve months. Every citizen has a choice. Are
you going to run?"
"Like
blazes the first chance I get!"
"I mean
run for office."
"Whose?"
"Mine,
for instance."
"You have
a delicate sense of humour."
So does Number 6, after all humour is the
very essence of a democratic society! Number 6 says that the interests of the
citizens are very much his own, and that the security of the citizens will be
his primary objective. Which means, should No.6 be elected as the new No.2,
then he will not increase the security of the citizens, but oversee their
freedom from the confines of The Village. In some cases this would do more harm
than good, for what use does anyone born to The Village have for the outside
world? It would be as it was years ago, when animal rights protesters released Mink
into the wild, when all they have known is the Mink farm. Irrespective of ones
personal views on this, the result was an absolute disaster. What did the
released Mink do? They attacked the Water Vole, {Ratty from Wind In The Willows}
killing them near to extinction here in the UK. But now numbers of Voles are slowly
recovering.
So you see Number 6's actions of wanting to
see the citizens of The Village to obey him and be free, might on the whole
look honourable. But can do more harm than good, and the repercussions
stretching all the way back to England and the government at the time in the
Houses of Parliament. And after all is not Number 6 simply satisfying his own
desire, in manipulating the community to what he wants ultimately, to escape. It
can be visualised now. The new Number 2 organising a mass breakout in which
Number 6 can loose himself in the confusion! Such an opportunity will not come
again until ‘Fall Out,’ although he doesn’t know that!
Be seeing you
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