These people,
They ran in circles
For their whole lives
It was an experiment to see
How long someone could repeat the same thing
Over and over again,
But they told the participants that were in the experiment
That it was actually test of the human will—
An endurance test
They had figured out ways for the participants to:
Eat,
Drink,
Defecate,
Piss,
And even get a form of sleep,
While running in a small circle
In their lab
They had chosen endurance athletes for the experiment—
People that were already used to pushing their bodies and minds to the limit—
And they told them that they were researching the next stages of human evolution.
And they ran
For:
Days,
And
Weeks,
And months
And then,
Years,
In a small circle
In a lab
Even when the scientist would leave,
They would still be running
And the technology would still record everything
It never stopped for them in the experiment, they ran every second until they died.
When they asked the scientist if their experiment was cruel, the scientist just shrugged and said,
“Simply being alive is similar to the experiment that we were doing. . . Life is just like running around in small circles. . . when you really look at it. . . Don’t you think so? . . . No? Well. . .”
CH 2/21/24