CHAPTER 44

CHAPTER 44

TIME CARMINGTON

HORACE CARMINGTON HEADED the agreement for the destruction of all existing biological and atomic weapons in the world. Despite being still very young, everyone wanted to hear the son of one of the most powerful men on the planet, as they said, Horace would easily be the savior of this world if he wanted to be, but the young man seemed more like an anti-hero than a hero himself. said.

His speech was blunt, even using a famous quote by Albert Einstein saying that:

How the Third World War will be I don't know, but the Fourth World War will be with stick and stone...

That brought a red alert to all nations, not that they didn't know the dangers they were causing, but they needed to understand once and for all that if they continued, the moment would come when it would no longer be possible to continue, because there would be no one else to to keep going, the world as they knew it had been extinguished, it was necessary to start over, and no restart is easy, it is necessary to break paradigms, concepts that we keep investing for generations after generations.

— But what shall we do with William Johnson? — Asked one of the presidents present at the meeting.

— This is not the time to worry about individuals, but about the collective, our planet is in a delicate situation, I believe that if we temporarily end prisons it will already be a great advance, because we need manpower to rebuild the planet...

— But many of these men are dangerous convicts.

— No more dangerous than we who have killed over four billion people out of sheer greed, I'm sorry sir, but we should all be in jail, we're all guilty of an unprecedented crime, not what William Johnson planned, that's what we allowed him to do, we're more guilty than the one who committed such an atrocity, as far as I know many of you bought his idea, supported him and now that you've seen what happened, they want to play the poor thing.

All of them were silent.

— We caused more than ten nuclear and chemical attacks that dragged more than half of Earth's population to Hades, one more prank like that and we exterminated all intelligent life on the planet, let's entrust our lives to ourselves, and all those who don't adapt will be killed in the public square, but we can no longer hold a collective trial where everyone is guilty. I know this is the right thing to do if we want to survive once again, we survived the ice age, we survived the Black Death, Spanish Flu, Ebola, AIDS and all the situations that humanity has been afflicted with. We survived and we will continue to survive, I believe this was an opportunity to start over in a wiser way, to invest in education, health, housing, security... We don't need full prisons, this is a cancer that we have to eliminate from our environment, if the person steals, take what makes him steal, if he killed, we will use a very effective method, we will pay in kind, but the world needs to get rid of this cancer once and for all.

Everyone gave him a standing ovation, cheering his name.

Horace looked at one of the doors to the west and saw his father grimly shaking his head and walking out of the room.

He smiled pleased with himself.

HORACE WAS ELECTED UN Secretary General that same year and with great effort, not only the United States of America, but Russia and other countries signed a treaty on nuclear disarmament and research related to chemical weapons.

— VERY GOOD, HORACE — Ted Johnson said — I knew I had made an excellent choice in nominating you.

'What about my family?'

Ted sent his servant to open the door and his daughter ran into your arms.

— I think we can have a deal now, don't you, Horace?

— What do you have in mind?

— Our family controls all the media and all the medicines, you, with a little help from us, are the Secretary General of the UN, we can join our families in a dynasty that will rule humanity for the rest of its days.

Horace realized there was no way out.

He held out his hand and Ted shook it.

— I hope you never break your word, Victor.

— I'm not my father, Horace.

— Where is he?

— Let's just say it was a thousand-year long sleep.