"David Gerrold - Chtorr 3 - A Rage for Revenge" - читать интересную книгу автора (Gerrold David)

Colonel Irving was sobbing loudly. Two assistants started up the aisle toward the dais. Foreman held
them back with a hand. "You agreed to follow the instructions. If you don't get up right now, Colonel
Cop-out, I will blow your brains out!" The sound of the hammer cocking on the gun was loud in the
room.
Colonel Irving scrambled to her feet so fast she looked jet-propelled.
"Thank you," said Foreman. He turned to the rest of us. "Do you see what it takes to get some of you to
keep your word? Are you beginning to see what some of you do instead?"
I was shaking so hard now, I could barely stay in my chair. Foreman put the "integrity tester" back in the
box. The Course Manager returned to the back of the room. Foreman turned to face the rest of us. "Do
you get the point? You can keep your word-and you don't! You'll only keep your word when your
survival is at stake. You think so little of the words that fall out of your mouth that you'll say anything, you
don't care, just so you'll look good. Well, this course is not about looking good-"
"I thought this course was supposed to be about the nature of humanity!" someone called out.
Foreman turned to face the man. "You have an agreement not to speak unless you're called on. And this
course is about the nature of humanity-but we can't even begin to have that discussion while you're still
functioning at the level of chimpanzees."
"I was here on time!" the man insisted. He stood up. I craned my head to see. The man was on the
opposite side of the room. He was thin and red-faced. And very angry.
Foreman looked unimpressed. "So you think your integrity is handled because you were on time? Well,
it's not. Because there's another whole level of it in here that you're not experiencing. It's no accident,"
Foreman said to him, "that you're in a group that
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! can't be trusted ten percent of the time. That's you-that's your integrity on the level of group."
The thin man protested, "But I don't see how any of this relates 1 to the war."
"It's very simple," Foreman said. "If we're going to defeat the Chtorr, then we need integrity at the level of
species. Nothing less. We will not stop the Chtorran invasion by accident! If we do stop them, it will only
be by concerted, direct, single-minded intention. Results only come from integrity. Pay attention now.
This is so simple that most of you chimpanzees are going to miss it! Integrity is nothing more than keeping
your word-and supporting the people around you in keeping theirs."
He let that sink in for a moment while he returned to his podium and put a throat lozenge in his mouth.
When he turned back to us, his voice was easy again. The stridency was gone.
"So," he said brightly. "This part of the course is about telling the truth. Most of you don't know how to
tell the truth-because you can't recognize it. There's a difference between what you believe and what's so
in the physical universe. You'll have the opportunity to experience that difference in here. For most of
you, that will be a revelation. I mean that; literally a revelation-"
And that's when I came out of my chair screaming. "No! Oh, no-not again!"
They grabbed me halfway to the door. It took six of them to pin me to the floor. And even then, I didn't
stop fighting-

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"A man is known by the enemies he keeps."