Brave New World
“How’s the writing going, Mr. Huxley?” the time-travelling hypnotist asked.
“Splendid. I’m almost done with my new book.”
“Wonderful. I particularly love the conditioning methods you describe.”
“Really?”
“Oh yes, which is why I’ve been using them on you for three months. Kneel!”
“Yes, Mistress.”
It was going to be a Brave New World, indeed.
I love Brave New World. It’s one of my favorite books. I read it for the first time when I was far too young but I still enjoyed the premise, the writing style, the implications within. Nowadays, the fetish side of me loves the concept of hypnopedia – sleep learning/programming – that determines how people are put in their “proper places” in the society.
Seeing as the time-travelling hypnotist loves to interact with writers and other artists, I thought it would be nice of her to use his ideas against him.
Levinass
“In the face the Other expresses his eminence, the dimension of height and divinity from which he descends.”
“Nice words, Mr. Levinas,” the time-travelling hypnotist said, “but I’m pretty sure my divinity is expressed in my ass.”
“Hmmm… it is very nice indeed.”
“Hypnotic even.”
“Yes.”
Resistance is opposed to Femdom, as philosophy to naïveté.
Emmanuel Levinas (12 January 1906 – 25 December 1995) was a French philosopher of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry who is known for his work related to Jewish philosophy, existentialism, ethics, phenomenology and ontology. In another life, I read and studied many of his writings. Those days are long gone, but I still like some of his considerations especially those related with ethics and the knowledge of the Other. For Levinas, the irreducible relation, the epiphany, of the face-to-face, the encounter with another, is a privileged phenomenon in which the other person’s proximity and distance are both strongly felt. In the book Totality and Infinity: an Essay on Exteriority, he wrote:
“The Other precisely reveals himself in his alterity not in a shock negating the I, but as the primordial phenomenon of gentleness.”
The basic tenet of this one is the same as yesterday’s. The time-travelling hypnotist uses people’s weaknesses against them and yes, in my kinky mind, Levinas rhymes with ass. The first line is a quote of his. The last one, a twist on yet another quote.
Hilarious
“How was ladies’ night, Jules?” Mark asked.
“Wonderful,” she handed him a cold beer. “Theresa is a splendid host and an even better teacher.”
“What did she teach you?”
“The best ways to enslave men, obviously.”
“Hilarious,” he laid down the empty bottle.
“Lesson one: always drug their drinks…” she smirked.
He never laughed again.
At around lunch time, some of my co-workers like to get together to drink beer. I don’t like beer so that’s always a no-go to me. However, one of them has a girlfriend who often gets him his beer for the ride and yeah, every now and then, I imagine she’s using the drink to slowly take control of him. That’s how my imagination goes, and I’m not sorry.
No, I don’t feel tempted to start drinking beer now but any other non-alcoholic drink will do.
It Gets Worse
“Forgive me father for I have sinned. It’s been six months since my last confession.”
“What happened, my child?”
“I became the hypnotized mindless bitch of a sadistic woman.”
“Oh.”
“It gets worse.”
“Really?”
“Yes. I’m also a recruiter now and she never had a slave priest…”
That changed before the end of the day.
Random impromptu, really. I’m not a religious person but I always found the concept of “confession” an intriguing one. Slave recruitment is also a funny concept to use in a story. Combine the two and… That’s it, really.