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Brick Squid: Individual

by The Finn

This is Brick Squid, individual. He is a pschological exeriment by libertarian parents in the mountains of BC. Brick is a product of anti- society. He knows the fundamentals of speech, like anyone else, but his is difference in every other possible way. We shall find out how, for Brick Squid is heading for a town called Alcon, BC, and there, society shall tear him apart. Slowly.

Brick's first human, excluding his parents in the mountains, looked at him with what Brick assumed was revulsion and shock. From the point of view of a society like ours, Brick was buck naked, and this is something to be shocked and revolted by. From Brick's point of view, it's a hot day. Why stifle your pores with clothing? The shocked and revolted one, a man of formidable age, his body covered in multi-colored garb, spat at Brick's feet and said bitterely, "What are you? Some kinda pervert?"

Brick knew what a pervert was. A pervert was a person who willful did wrong. Brick, as far as he knew, had done no wrong. Therefore, the man was wrong, from Brick's point of view.

"But, I'm not not." Stuttered the helpless chap.

"Well, yer neked aren't ya? What, ya get off on it?"

Brick knew what "get off" meant as well. He looked down at himself. His penis was, as he expected, limb and dead as Asia.

"Isn't it obvious?"

The man hit him. Hard.

Brick came to in a small gray cell. He felt like a caged bird. To cut a long story short, Brick was soon admitted into an asylum, where cruel men poked and prodded and prodded and poked. They decided, in their infinite wisdom, to "cure" him. "Cure", to a psychiatrist, means force someone to adopt your way of thinking. Like religion, but worse. Since everything the cruel psychiatrists forced on him was contrary to what his libertarian parents had taught him, Brick's mind crumbled like cheese.

Years later, we can find Brick in the same asylum, sinking deeper and deeper into himself, while the psychiatrists continue to "cure" him.

Society is hostile towards individuals because it can't understand them.

We brainwash our young to be conformists.

Brick is the only exception to date.

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