Hmm... 200 years of muted living! I wonder how long the rebellion has been brewing. Did we come into this at its peak? Did they only just start? How many of the upper echelon of society are all nulls, too?
The emotion blockers must be pretty effective if people are still allowed to consume whatever literature they want, or I assume this is where they've picked up the inspiration for their names and the inspiration for what seems like would have been an extinct vocabulary... Not much use for vulgar name calling without the passion that would surround it when everyone is emotionless.
Somehow I completely missed the previous part!
goes back and reads