[UA] Heard Mentality: Lowest Common Denominator

[Joe Littrell]

"They say that everybody on the planet is separated from everybody else by 
no more than six degrees of separation. Of course, that's a load of old 
bushwah. What isn't is the fact that everybody is born with a *potential* 
separation number - if you live long enough, you're destined to meet the 
right people to put you within that many degrees of separation from the 
whole planet. There's a couple of ways to find out your number - there's a 
beggar in Kathmandu who'll tell you if you give him 777 rupees, and there's 
a guy in Sunnyvale, California who owns a coin operated fortune-teller 
that'll spit out a slip of paper with your number on it if you use a silver 
dime minted in a leap year.

"Now, even though the old saw isn't really true, there's quite a few Sixes 
running around out there, several Fives, and a handful of Fours. Lately, 
though, there's talk of a kid out in the Midwest who's got a potential 
number of Three. The guys who watch the numbers - Bacons, they call 
themselves - are trying to keep a lid on his whereabouts so that he's got a 
chance to grow up a little before every Illuminated asshat tries to enlist 
him in whatever underground war they've got on tap that week.

"Of course, they tell me that it's only a matter of time before there's a 
Two born. That's right, an honest to ghod FOAF, and whoever gets him is 
gonna have a propaganda tool that make the Internet look like a basket of 
Chick tracts."
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"We crisscross the world, making it right, making it strange, and
  the people never see our coming or our going..."
                                           - Doc Brass, Planetary  



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