This Is What We Call Progress

Two co-workers sat at a table together in the break room discussing their work.

"I hear you're making excellent strides in your potential suppression program," the first one began before sipping his steaming brew.

"Absolutely, J," replied the second individual. "As director of desensitization, I'm proud of the strides we've taken in our field."

"As you should be," J agreed. " I mean, when your department was created, we were snuffing out life in back alleys using coat hangers. Now, your work is sanctioned by every developed government as not only acceptable, but right and good. You really have accomplished a lot in a few short decades, K."

K nodded before replying. "In some ways, I miss the old days. Everything was fresh and radical. Everytime our process was deployed, there was so much at stake. Now that the process is so mainstream, it's almost boring."

"What do you mean," J pressed.

"Well," K shrugged. "In some ways, each event had so much more potential. The host was almost as likely to be terminated as the payload. The process provider was risking the loss of career and freedom. In a weird way, it was more efficient."

J nodded as he reached for a charcoal infused muffin. He took a bite of the dry pastry and washed the flavor from his palate using the scorched coffee.

"Ug," he muttered. "That muffin's dryer than Lucifer's retirement home." He tossed the remainder of he muffin into the trash and turned back to K. "I guess you can argue that efficiency is down from the early days, but you can't argue with the volume your getting right now. Besides that, the we're not just seeing massive industry growth, we're seeing major progress in the hearts and minds of the public. They've never been more supportive of your work than they are right now, especially in America."

"I know," K laughed. "isn't that ironic considering their religious history? By the same token, it's their history that has brought them to this level of support."

"Exactly," J responded. "Freedom has been the core of America's national doctrine since it's founding. They've taken that idea of personal liberty and placed it on a pedestal above all other ideals including morality. They just can't see that they've accepted a different kind of bondage." J checked his watch and turned back to K. "Other than abortion, what other improvements have you made?"

"Well," K mused. "Just as freedom is America's core doctrine, abortion is really our core doctrine. Everything we do seems to grow out of our success in the abortion industry. For a long time, people were arguing about whether or not life starts at conception. Now they're arguing about whether or not life starts at birth. Before, they were arguing about whether or not unborn children have rights. Now, they're demonstrating their belief that children as old as fifteen don't have rights."

"That's what impresses me most about your work," J grinned. "We have finally progressed to the point where children are being denied life saving medical care over the objections of the parents because further treatment is considered cruel. Children are being transitioned from their gender at birth at ages as young as five. We've finally gotten them to the point where children have so little value, they're willing to let them die and be utilized in grotesque social experiments."

"A lot of my progress is due to your work in reversed cognitive activity," K asserted. "While simultaneously denying the right to life, people are granting children the rights to make drastic and irreversible decisions about their bodies. They're too young to smoke or drink alcohol, but their not too young to take hormones and opt for a sex change? Come on, even I know that's crazy. Not to mention the fact that one of the chief arguments for abortion is women's rights to do what they want with their body. First of all, fifty percent of the children who are aborted are female. Second, you have them convinced that the fetus is a part of their body. Would they claim a tumor as a part of their body? Probably not."

J laughed out loud before responding. "Hey, I'm good at what I do. What's next in your business plan?"

"Well, you're going to love this," K grinned. "Picture this, involuntary abortions without the knowledge of the mother."

"No way," J exclaimed. "Even you can't pull that off!"

"You underestimate me, my friend," K smugly replied. "They're already on their way. One of the arguments for abortion is population control. At first, it was about demographics. Soon enough, it'll be about overcrowding and resource management. Humans are so concerned about the environment, their willing to kill off large swaths of their own species to protect it."

"Yeah, but you're talking about involuntary abortions," J reminded his colleague. "How are you going to pull that off?"

"Hey, people are prideful and self serving," K shrugged. "It's that sin nature we work so hard to get them forget about. There have always been marginalized people groups in the world. Also, democracy is really becoming popular in the world. That's great because democracy presents the opportunity for immoral governance if that's what the majority of the people want.That's why so many people in America are trying to convince the population that their government is a democracy instead of a constitutional republic."

"I follow your logic," J nodded. "But what will it look like?"

"The majority, represented by their elected government, will establish a process by which they will determine which children get to be born," K began. "The news outlets will ignore it and those who don't ignore, won't be believed. Pregnancies will be allowed to come to term based on the family's socioeconomic positions in their respective communities. Cancer, along with mental and physical disorders, will be weeded from society. Look at Iceland. They've already eliminated Downs syndrome through abortion. They'll do this without the mother's knowledge by induced miscarriages and they'll preach against the rich for having access to 'better' healthcare. The whole phenomenon will be chalked up to disparities between the rich and the poor, which will only get worse due to the rise of socialism. Good going on that, by the way. Abortion providers will be integrated into the new national healthcare system and will utilize the network to ensure that the government's trait matrix is universally applied."

"Wait, how can you have healthcare disparities when you have a universal healthcare system?" J interrupted.

"How can you have income disparities in a socialist society?" K replied. "Besides, backwards logic is your department. Human nature and flawed reasoning will iron out the kinks. They always do."
"Do you think you'll be able to get with devaluing pregnant women like that?" J asked doubtfully.
"They've devalued the most vulnerable people in their society. If they can devalue the unborn, they can devalue anyone." K asserted.

"What happens if people find out about it?" J asked. "Won't they revolt?"

"How would they revolt?" K pressed. "They're loosing their guns, and their right to self defence, as we speak."

"Good point," J admitted. "But that doesn't take spiritual warfare into account."

"You mean the Christians?" K clarified. I'm not worried about them. The vast majority of them are indistinguishable from the general population. They have lost so much credibility that they don't even try to be separate from the world anymore. Most don't attend church regularly. Prayer and Bible study are practically a thing of the past. Unless they step up their game in a massive way, they're not a threat to my plan."

"Hey boneheads!" The conversation was interrupted. " Break's over!"

J glanced at his watch and nodded.

"Yep, I suppose it is. A demon's work is never done."