Journals/Gideon Excerpt 1

New Evidence

"- as you would know, if you were capable of waiting through a single sentence." [pause. Cough heard O.C.] "Again. I assert. To trust your own judgment, or to 'go with your gut', as they have instructed you in America since birth - has always been a liability.

To invoke the witch hunts of bygone days and say 'are you now, or have you ever been possessed?' is an attempt to laugh off the messy reality, and in my view, intellectually bankrupt. To ask 'Is he, she, or are they in control, does the constituent intelligence currently govern their actions?' Semantics.

To what extent do your ideas alter your behavior, sir? It is not a convenient binary, but - yes - a spectrum.

The isolated cases in which a host - which is to say, any person alive - blacks out and loses all sense of agency... are an emergency measure on the part of the 'guest'. Of note, but they distract us from the truth. Which simply to say that the line between Us and Them may be academic. They have always been with us.

- excerpt from the informal interrogation of Dr. Arturo Gideon