Code 46 (2003)

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Code 46 (2003)

The middle-aged married man
cheating with the subversive waif
knows the system well, and expects
to be caught.

He lives in a bubble of time
soon to be smoothed out
and forgotten.

The waif says, "You have a kid?
...I bet he is special.
...Everybody's children are so special--
it makes you wonder where all the ordinary grown-ups come from."

In this future that looks almost like now
you can have
an ordinary life

with sanitized memories and desires
safely inside the Sphinx.

Or, make your own story, living dangerously
outside it. Both are valid choices
if a state-induced virus
can correct antisocial behaviour.

What is most interesting in this picture
is what is absent:

Prison.

Punishment.

In a society without brutality
how do you define violence?

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clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l6Eo1nGsXI