To Watch, Raise, and Harvest

There came a time when all the systems crashed, the public had been far too blind to even realize that “We The People” was a retired phrase. We were not the people, we had no longer any say amongst what occurred to ourselves, our families nor our friends. It was like we were all torn apart. The people you were surrounded by seemed to be but blank faces. But that’s not how it was for all of us. Some of us were lucky, we lived in communes where we were raised free of any harm that was released upon the ‘Harvest.’ We were given clean water to drink and bathe in, we even had soaps and shampoos. Our food was free of any harmful pesticides, we were some of the few who were actually fed to be kept alive.
We lived in what appeared to be a commune, a camp that was made up of a few shack buildings. Formerly abandoned, but that’s but only their disguise. They function perfectly, but are meant to look grotesque so we aren’ t attacked nor hunted. We’re known as the ‘Raised,’ though this is how I have lived all my life there’s more to it. You see we were born of genes that made us unique to others, we could function and use a majority of our brain that was closed off to the previous race. By raising us together they aim for us to mate, in hopes that our offspring one day will be a breed of man able to access 100% of what we never knew we had.
Though we appear to be spoiled we live an unfortunate life. We live with no privacy, once our identity becomes known depending on the reactions of others we could easily become hunted. Thus why we are stored far from the Harvest. We are allowed to work amongst the Harvest, but it greatly puts us at risk. I recall once when I had one of my weekly check-ups the foolish Government issued doctor had left a file cabinet open. Within five minutes I had read every file within the drawer and memorized every word. The way the Harvest live is similar to the ways of the Plastic Generation.
The Plastic Generation lived blindly, assuming their Government would make the right decisions. But the Government only wanted this paper and metal substance known as money. With money came power and with power came radical change. You see they never cared for the people let alone the planet. All they wanted was the power, so they themselves could put it towards.... well this and.... us. They never cared about the waste they made, nor the resources they drained. For with the money they put aside would sprout a race to fix it all. Perhaps one day the Raised will become the race they had planed. But from what I have seen and read, this planet and most the people on it are already dead.
With the Harvest they wake up every morning and depending on their age they either go to school or work. If they are an adult regardless of their skills they go to their desk job from 9am to 8pm and work mindlessly to make barely enough codes to put food on their table. The youth is taken on these strange white buses to what once was called school, but what they learn is not an education like that of the Raised. What they learn is only an illusion. A mask to the Government and lies to keep them blind. The truth is the Harvest are insignificant. They are only allowed to have two children to each family, you are not allowed to live past the age of 35, you are poisoned by men in Hazard suits with masks to keep them safe. They have no clean water, their life may appear to be how it once was. But the truth is they are treated like a 3rd Country though they may live in one of the remaining countries.