Propensity

<h4><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What if behavioural control worked too well?</strong></h4><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>No riots. No rebellion. Just a flattening-of desire of ambition of will. Across homes schools and governments people stop acting like themselves. Some forget how. Others forget why.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The system wasn't designed to stay on this long. But now there's no off switch. And the researchers who built it? Most of them are zeroed.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As one child begins to drift from baseline an impossible question resurfaces: </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What does it mean to behave?</em></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Propensity</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is a speculative novella from Ridley Park author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Hemo Sapiens</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sustenance</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. Known for fiction that slips through institutional cracks and ethical ambiguity Park returns with a chilling vision of artificial peace and cognitive collapse.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This is a psychological dystopia without explosions a story where silence spreads faster than violence where systems behave better than the people inside them.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A tale of modulation inertia and the slow unravelling of human impulse-for readers who prefer their dystopias quiet and their horrors deeply plausible.</span></p>