Advertisements have ruined the word love.

Shampoo and television seem to have a side effect of mind control. With the rise of nanotechnology, corporations more powerful than the government have invested their money into nanotechnology research. They have hired scientist to devise a technology that could seep through the skin and find certain areas amongst the brain. They then act as an electrical simulator administering various feelings and impulses upon the user. The way they administer these nano electrical simulators is by shampoo. All the user has to do is massage it into their scalp and the nanobots will do the rest.

The way television comes into play is various television stations and commercials give off various frequencies not detectible by the human ear. The “nanobots” act as receptors to this frequency and then produce electrical impulses creating different feelings. For example a McDonalds commercial would potentially produce the feeling of happiness and self-content. The next time the person drives by a McDonalds the feelings of happiness and self-content will reemerge, this will then be detected by the “nanobots” to which will produce an impulse such as Hunger and anxiousness.

Due to corporations being cheap and lacking morals the nanobots were not yet perfected before they were administered. Most or all of the nanobots experienced malfunctions causing users nationwide to become insane. Suicide rates have skyrocketed, people have taken on serial killer tendencies, schizophrenia, Panic disorder, multiple personalities, Bipolar disorder and so on effect most of the population. There are still normal people throughout US the ones who don’t or didn’t wash their hair between the time of distribution and the time of realization. These people are quickly being picked off by the mobs of serial killers and the mentally disturbed.

Before everything went wrong corporations were in battle with each other, different corporations owned different shampoo brands, owned different television stations that produce different frequencies. But all the corporations used the same nanobots; they just reprogrammed them to receive different frequencies. The corporations all but legally own the state of Texas and have all their corporate headquarters and homes scattered throughout it. Only a few ranch owners still remain that are separate from the corps.

The story Follows a group of people from one of the corporations who were having a “how do we fix this” meeting way out in the middle of nowhere Texas. At this meeting they figured out how to reverse the effects and on their way back to the Headquarters their car breaks down (or something) in front of a large ranch. They have no cell phone reception or any means of communication. At this ranch they meet a family of heavily armed heavily horsed people who provide the group with weapons and horses. Several of people in the group are ex-military Special Forces. The borders of Texas are heavily guarded but many of the insane still manage to cross and during the groups trek back to Headquarters they have several encounters with their creations.

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