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Nicholas Boothman
then pulled up The Gaze on his wrist-screen, tapping
the decentralized network.
It was still running. It was still demanding truth.
He entered a query, the final, desperate question:
"Functional Status of Remaining Global Governance."
The Gaze returned its final, cold analysis:
RESULT: All national, financial, and political
systems have achieved Entropic Equilibrium (0.00%
function). The legal basis for organized human action
has been permanently eliminated by the Mandate.
Conclusion: State of Nature achieved.
The screen then went blank, the power source
finally failing. The Gaze, the weapon that started the
revolution, died with its final, damning piece of
unvarnished truth. Henry was now cut off from all
human communication, submerged in the terrifying
silence of the final failure.
He looked out over the dying city. The destruction
was immense, but it was the scale of the failure that
transcended human understanding. This wasn't the
collapse of an empire; it was the failure of the
biological experiment itself. The species had been
given the ultimate tool, pure truth, and had used it,
with perfect logic, to commit suicide.
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