Tame

The Free Man was in an orchard. He didn't know the word, but he recognized the description that once her grandmother had given him about all that they had lost. And here it was. "The fruit could be picked from the tree, and there were rows and rows as far as your eye could see of trees." And of course they had picked fruit from trees, but only when they found one, and there were never too many in the same place.

He had alway believed -been told- that the places where Unifieds cultivated their food were factories, with fences aroun preventing the Free Men from entering. But now he was in one. And he could just extend his hand and take the-what was it? A sort of apple or pear, with yellow skin.

He ate, and put some in his pouch. He walked though this strange, structured forest. A Unified walked at the distance. "I am the last man", he thought "When I die there will be no hope of recovering the world. There is no hope already. What if I burn everything? Who will I be burning it for?" The Unified was coming nearer, apparently oblivious to the presence of the man, picking fruit and putting it in a sack.

He looked around himself. There were many more pickers. they were all coming to him. Was this an ambush? He had the strength, but the resoludion had gone out of him. He knew how to fight them; kill them or incapacitate them with a quick movement, never let them surround you.
He had seen them surounding some of his pack members. Moving like one, they could block almost every movement, and grapple quickly and effectively as a hand around a small fruit.

One of the Unified spoke. The Free Man had wondered since he had been alone, since he had the impulse to understand the Unified and not only destroy them, if they could all speak at once. They never did.
-We have been thinking.-said the Unified-Do you know what a zoo was?.
The Free Man did not recognize the word.-No- He admitted.
-It was a place were animals were put. Animals from many different places, not necessarily native to the land. And, at the beginning, they were trapped there in a big cage.
-I was told about it, but it had a different name-Said the free man, a bit more enthusiastically than he would have thought possible. He wanted - to eat them. They stored them alive.
-No. What you say is a farm. The purpose of a zoo was to look at the animals only. We know it is difficult for you to understand, but it is true. Some animals were caged because they were dangerous, but most of them were caged simply because they could escape. If they escaped people could look at them no more. And that was bad for the zoo.
The free man was so fascinated by this information so alien to his normal way of thought, trying to imagine what the zoo was that he couldn't predict what direction they were going.
- Afterwards, the realized that the zoo itself could be the cage. Like a big house for all the animals that were not dangerous to the people or each other. The dangerous animals were the only ones who were locked in smaller cages.
The reason why we are telling you this is that this is exactly like that. And we know you are a dangerous animal. But we are willing to give you the last chance. Can you live freely among us? Or do we have to give you a little cage?

Confrontation

"The tower of Babel" had said Father Max "Was God's punishment on men who tried to get too close to him". A silence followed. Everyone already knew what followed. This had been, after all, a conference on the dangers of this new technology. "What they are building, this new device for ´communication´, is a challenge to god. It will erase the punishment, by making Everyone able to communicate with everyone else". A murmur filled the audience. "And these scientists, these ´people of progress´, they blatantly declare that this invention will overcome all the limits of mankind. Even death. If this is not a new plan of the humans to become God, I don't know what it is". The crowd was restless "This is a new Babel," Screamed father max "and we have to stop it".