Failure to hear
Added 2021-12-09 17:41:20 +0000 UTCYour partner had given you some conditioning mp3s to listen to. They might have underestimated how much you would use them.
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The sound of the front door closing would have told you that your partner had come home if you had heard it.
You might have heard them call your name.
But you didn’t.
You were lost.
Lost in endless conditioning.
Lost in brainwashing yourself.
It wasn’t entirely your fault, to be fair. This was their conditioning that they had implanted in you.
But as you kept repeating the words, over, and over, in time with their voice through the headphones…
It didn’t seem to matter. None of it mattered. All that mattered was that you let their conditioning in more deeply. All you needed was more intense brainwashing. So, the first time you noticed them, was their lips, on yours, pulling you out of trance.
