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How do they get us? That’s easy. Remember those ASVAB tests one had to take in high school? Well, somehow, the “they” who run this operation manage to get some key questions on that test. Even if you bomb every section of the test a recruiter will pester you to no end if you manage to answer those key questions correctly. What are those questions? I have no idea. I do know they have something to do with being able to compartmentalize reality.

Don’t sit there scratching your head. “Compartmentalize reality” is the new buzz-phrase for “ability to lie.” MBAs go to college to learn how to lie before Congress or a Federal Judge without breaking a sweat. Actors learn to lie by acquiring the skills to “put themselves in the moment.” We have a different ability. For us, reality is what we say it is. We don’t just put on a cover alias, we become the alias. We can switch an alias at a moment’s notice and we can maintain the cover even through torture and other interrogation techniques. Even lie detectors cannot sniff out the lie. When we compartmentalize reality, whatever compartment we happen to be in at the time is reality.

That’s as far as this orphan got before life got in the way. I posted it for you in all its unedited (not even self edited) glory. Didn’t even fix the stuff I noticed as I was pasting it here. According to Libre Office I made it to 7000 words. When rainy days and life allow I may add to it, but I don’t know if I want to stop writing geek books long enough to finish developing a story this involved.

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