DRAWINGS FROM ARCHIVE CITY
Research Institute for Human Rights Published in 3508
DRAWINGS FROM ARCHIVE CITY
Archive City – also known as the disintegration city or the hierarchy city – existed from 3083 to 3505. Myths are plenty about this place that in many ways has become the symbol of human cruelty. However, there are not many known facts about the city and its citizens. This book is thus a unique insight into the repression of the majority of its citizens. These, at first glance, naïve drawings made by Worker 230586 will be of significant importance to our research into the cruelties that took place in Archive City. This small archive of drawings gives us a picture of the everyday life and living conditions of a worker in the hierarchy society. Through his clumsy drawings you clearly feel the cruelty and suppression that took place in the work areas of the city. Nothing is more frightening that having the injustice depictured so naively and uncritically as it was done here. This primitive recollection of cruelty in Archive City leaves the spectator wiser about the city, but still incomprehensive about how such human cruelty could reign in an enlightened society for several centuries.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND In Archive City the hierarchical segmentation of inhabitants was a clearer ranking than ever before in history. In this both dystopian and utopian society there is no such thing as a middle class. Only pontentate and worker. Elite and proletarian. The human segmentation is based on pure physiological conditions: the large proletarian segment had been made to hard work and long hours, whereas the elite had been developed to utilize their huge intelligence. This they did by repressing the working class as much as possible. Everywhere in human history we find examples of human segmentation and hierarchies: from the early Stone Age chieftains, through human tragedies as the many world wars, to religious fragmentations. Man will always seek to form groups and make structures where one or more individuals take a dominant position with several layers of humans of diminishing influence underneath. The division, however, that Archive City is believed to be based on, has no precedent in history and is hopefully a unique example. The citizens were divided into two human races. Both developed by genetic manipulation and cloning. The predecessors of the city leaders created the basis for this by studying the possibilities of human development and evolution. Their scientific research dealt with how the human body and mind could be developed and from their many human laboratory tests they created the prototypes of the workers and intelligentsia that later came to inhabit Archive City. Homo Operantes Home Operantes was a human race especially made to work. The workers in Archive City were kept in large human storage areas and spent the majority of the day in the enormous work camps in the urban periphery. It was the workers who kept the city self sufficient even when it came to the production of new workers. The Homo Operantes race made up exactly ¾ of the inhabitants of the city. But in spite of the fact that they were the majority, they never rebelled against the inhuman life they were forced to live. To a large extent this was due to their low intelligence, which in many ways was one of the most curious
characteristics that were assigned to this race. In other words they were placed on a lower level of the evolutionary ladder and their IQ is estimated to be just around 75. The muscle mass, and thus the working capacity of the workers, was massive and it allowed them to work for hours without becoming exhausted. They only needed a minimum of food as their intestines were prolonged. Their production of hair and nails was removed. Their skin was thick and even without clothes they never lost important energy from freezing. We believe that this race fed exclusively on pills that contained the necessary nutrients and vitamins. The working race was so to speak designed to become human robots who – without the ability to conceive thoughts of rebellion and in constant fear of the elite - worked themselves to death under the horrible conditions of Archive city’s work camps. As if they were machines, they were turned on and off and were not brought to life before they were fully developed and ready to work – just as they were only kept alive as long as they were optimally functioning. We estimate that the lifespan of a worker has been around 20 years. Homo Ratus The elite of Archive City, the race of Homo Ratus, were the leading organ. The ¼ who made up the thinkers and rulers of Archive City lived in the center of the city. Behind thick walls in the pyramid shaped center, the elite lived a carefree life although conscious about the workers’ misery outside the pyramid. It may seem unbelievable that these highly intelligent individuals could live fully aware of the sacrifices their pleasurable and superfluous lives cost the workers. It is the very denial that still today presents a nightmare vision of the human cruelty that ruled the city. From their triangular residence, the ruling class planned everything and distributed and organized the work in the three enormous work camps. This human race was created on the basis of scientific research into human intelligence. They were the result of the successful development of the human brain. Homo Ratus’ intelligence was so optimized that they used this
as a superior weapon to take over power in society and in the course of a few years they built the hierarchical city Archive city, where power was theirs alone. This human race was designed with the Greek Gods as models and had slim arms and legs. The expanded intelligence had given the race large heads. Further they have had short intestines in order to process less of what they ate and thus have been able to enjoy larger quantities of food. All illnesses have been curable by medicine, and Homo Ratus has had an average life expectancy of minimum 200 years. We expect that there have been rules for breeding in order to avoid overpopulation. In the society of the thinkers the mind is developed through education and cultural entertainment. Not only was this human race created to use their large brain capacity, they were also stimulated through education and mind stimulating drugs. Inside the pyramid shaped utopia stimulants such as food, sex, sleep and entertainment were enjoyed to the full. Archive City The city itself was built as a stage that displayed the elite’s power and the systematic segmentation of the city. The entire city was meticulously divided, and from the enormous pyramid shaped building in the center the elite could keep an on the workers. The city has been designed from triangles. One huge triangle – the ideal symbol of power and hierarchy – that rose towards the sky and constituted the home of the elite. Around the central pyramid and at ground level were triangular areas (ref. figure 01) designed for optimal work and systematic human storage where the workers lived. Thus the workers – without having the slightest idea of the contents of pyramid – could always see it and could always be seen from it. All workers were gathered in one of three segments each containing a work camp and a sleeping area where the workers were stored while they rested for next day’s hard work. The workers were organized according to a well defined system and were kept under surveillance
Fig.01 Archive City
24 hours a day by drones. They were numbered both on the arm and the back and chipped, so that they could be traced at all times. The chip was also used to register when they arrived at and later left the work camps. The residential areas were a simple form of human storage that resembled cargo containers. To optimize surveillance of the workers, almost all building materials were transparent.
By never establishing personal relations to the workers it has been far easier for the elite to carry out cruel actions against this group. Fear of the unfamiliar has also been an important factor in the systematic suppression. We believe that the thinkers furthermore have justified their actions by reasoning that the workers were made to work and were too unintelligent to understand the injustices that they were faced with.
The thinkers’ part of society may also have been divided into several segments within the walls of the powerful pyramid. The triangular city center is believed to have been divided into the following segments: management, scientific research, education, entertainment and residence. When the elite moved into the work areas it was probably done by means of airborne vessels, and whenever it was necessary that they had to move around at ground level among the workers, they have been armed with weapons that gave off a high voltage electric impulse to be able to control workers and keep them away through fear.
Precisely how Archive City was destroyed in the year 3505, we have no accurate answer to at present. There are several theories based on the occurance of an error in the stupefication process of a series of workers who then rebelled against their suppressors because they were able to understand the injustices. Whether the destruction was the work of Home Operantes or Homo Ratus remains an open question. It is believed that it may have been a desperate decision by the city leaders to ease all traces of the city’s existence when it was clear to them that they could not overcome their physically much stronger opponents. The small archive of sketches of life in the city left by Worker 230586 may have been the first signs of this and thus carry an additional significance. By re-inventing human recollection, so to speak, this human has become a part of the evolution that Homo Operantes have undergone.
Hierarchy This city is a picture of suppression and hierarchy in its purest form. The discrimination that we have witnessed both before and since in human history has been very clear-cut in this two dimensional world based on suppression, segmentation and discrimination. How the elite was able to accept this community structure may seem incomprehensible. Behind this, however, lies some very basic human mechanisms that are often at work in undemocratic and discriminating societies where the agenda is set by human evilness and the basic instinct of surviving at the cost of others. The city was clearly split into “Us” and “Them”, and the two races only blended when it was unavoidable. Even visually the difference between the two populations was so clear that it was obvious to which population an individual belongeds. The workers were especially designed to have no individual characteristics. They had no hair, not even nails, wore no clothes but only a number that made it possible to register the worker’s whereabouts. Thus they were seen – not as individuals – but as a mass.
230586 230586 has been a worker. He has lived in sector 2, which is the part of the city assigned to human production. In other words, his work has been to assist in the production of new workers. 230586 has probably worked in the section of human production that monitored the early phase of the human beings. This can be deducted from the large number of sketches of foetuses that were found among his papers. His life was similar to that of all other workers. A life that consisted of sleep, pills and work. In his notes we found several illustrations of his everyday life with a clear majority of the following topics: His work. Which supports the theory that work
took up far the largest part of a worker’s waking hours. Pills. His enormous fascination of the pill as a motive does not necessary imply that pills physically filled his daily life, rather that they were the joy of his life. It is probable that they did not only contain nutrients and vitamins, but also drugs that stimulated Hypothalamus and released large quantities of dopamine. Pills may also have been used as a reward. The sleeping area. This area made up his home and is an obvious motive. Especially in his illustrations from the sleeping area we see his fascination of other Homo Operantes. Coping with anxiety. In several drawings he has tried to visualize the anxiety and cruelty that he experienced. This natural processing process of the terrible experience gives us a frightening picture of the evilness of the society. Himself. He is aware of his own existence, his own appearance and quite fascinated by it. His drawings include both sketches of his entire body and fragments of it such as hands and feet. 230586 gives us with his small archive of drawings from the city a unique insight into the lives of the workers in Archive City. We expect that he was not quite as his fellow workers. The typical worker was made with a very low IQ and without the emotional center in the brain and could therefore be used almost on an equal footing with a robot. 230586’s drawings, however, bear witness of an individual who was able to feel, think and reason. He may have been one of the workers whose intelligence by mistake had become too high, and that is why he has had the need for and the ability to produce this small archive of information about Archive City. His sketches and notes are made on the basis of his ability as an observer and communicator and are thus simple and personal. They are entirely based on his personal experience of the hierarchical world and its injustice. He does not
possess the ability to understand the hierarchical structures in the city, but his drawings bear witness of an understanding of how power was exercised in single events. To see these naïve reproductions of the terrible conditions in the workers’ part of Archive City gives the reader a clear picture of the injustices in the hierarchy city.
THE ARCHIVED DRAWINGS FROM 230586
Archive City – also known as the disintegration city or the hierarchy city – existed from 3083 to 3505. Myths are plenty about this place that in many ways has become the symbol of human cruelty. However, there are not many known facts about the city and its citizens. This book is thus a unique insight into the repression of the majority of its citizens. These, at first glance, naïve drawings made by Worker 230586 will be of significant importance to our research into the cruelties that took place in Archive City. This small archive of drawings gives us a picture of the everyday life and living conditions of a worker in the hierarchy society. Through his clumsy drawings you clearly feel the cruelty and suppression that took place in the work areas of the city. Nothing is more frightening that having the injustice depictured so naively and uncritically as it was done here. This primitive recollection of cruelty in Archive City leaves the spectator wiser about the city, but still incomprehensive about how such human cruelty could reign in an enlightened society for several centuries.
Research Institute for Human Rights Published in 3508