Chapter Forty-eight
Total Speech and Vision Control
Babs had a virtual library of ideas with which to further control our lives, and she instituted the next one a month later.
“Convicts! You continue to talk to each other far too much!” she exclaimed one evening while chaining us to be fed. “I’m getting a little fed up with all of your weeping and begging, even when you’re sealed in here by yourselves. However! Rather than keep you permanently gagged, your equipment will be modified.”
“Your collars will be fitted with sensitive microphones, and these will be linked to the computer so that if you try to talk, or if you whine or scream, you will be disciplined. The longer you make noise, the harsher the discipline will become. Even if you are gagged, the system will be left active, and t
