BreXit : States of Decay

I've never seen such a State of Decay....

The Doctor, 

England, 1980

"Bourgeois democracy, although a great historical advance in comparison with medievalism, always remains, and under capitalism is bound to remain, restricted, truncated, false and hypocritical, a paradise for the rich and a snare and deception for the exploited, for the poor. 

Even in the most democratic bourgeois state the oppressed people at every step encounter the crying contradiction between the formal equality proclaimed by the “democracy” of the capitalists and the thousands of real limitations and subterfuges which turn the proletarians into wage-slaves. It is precisely this contradiction that is opening the eyes of the people to the rottenness, mendacity and hypocrisy of capitalism. It is this contradiction that the agitators and propagandists of socialism are constantly exposing to the people, in order to prepare them for revolution! 

And now that the era of revolution has begun, Kautsky turns his back upon it and begins to extol the charms of moribund bourgeois democracy."

Bourgeois And Proletarian Democracy : 

The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky 

- by VI Lenin

ROMANA: 

A society that evolve backwards must be subject to some even more powerful force restraining it. 

DOCTOR: 

An even more powerful force? 

ZARGO: 

How very mysterious. 

HABRIS: 

Lord Aukon himself is here. 

(Aukon enters and inspects the line.) 

AUKON: 

Interesting. 

(He goes back to Adric.) 

AUKON: 

A mind that shields itself. 
One who pretends to be a dull and stupid peasant, but who is different. 

ADRIC: 

Who, me? 

AUKON: 

You. You, come with me. 

ADRIC: 

Why? 

AUKON: 

Spirit too, I see. Excellent. 

ADRIC: 

Come with you? What's in it for me? 

AUKON: 

Wealth.

Power.

Dominion over This World.

And over many others.

[State room]

DOCTOR: 

Surely you realise something here must be wrong? 

ZARGO: 

Wrong? 

DOCTOR: 

Yes. 

CAMILLA: 

What is, is. 

DOCTOR: 

No. What is, is wrong. 

Look, societies develop in varying ways. 

Yours just seems to be sinking back into some sort of primitivism. 

Wouldn't you say so? 

ROMANA: 

Oh, yes. In terms of applied socioenergetics, it's losing its grip on level two development. 

DOCTOR: 

On level two? 

ROMANA: 

A society that evolve backwards must be subject to some even more powerful force restraining it. 

DOCTOR: 

An even more powerful force? 

ZARGO: 

How very mysterious. 

DOCTOR: 

Well, mysterious or not, those rebels seem to think the power emanates from you. 

CAMILLA: 

They flatter us. 

ZARGO: 

In any society there is bound to be a division. The rulers and the ruled. 

DOCTOR: 

A division? Yawning chasm, I'd say. Wouldn't you? 

ROMANA: 

No, I'd say a sociopathetic abscess. 

DOCTOR: 

Oh, I wish I'd thought of that. That's a good diagnosis. 

Yes, I've never seen such a State of Decay. 

CAMILLA: 

Be careful, Doctor. We have acquired great powers. 

DOCTOR: 

Ah. 

ZARGO: 

There must be rulers. A Ship of State must have a pilot. 

DOCTOR: 

What did you say?

ZARGO: 

Ship of State. 

CAMILLA: 
No. 

DOCTOR: 

Ship of State? 

ZARGO: 

A metaphor. 

DOCTOR: 

Ah. It's just odd, you see, that he should mention that, because Romana and I have just been at your ship's old manifest and I can't remember what the ship was called but Romana might be able to remember. What was it called, Romana? 

ROMANA: 

Hydrax. 

DOCTOR: 

Yes, Hydrax. 
Does that mean anything to you? 
Hydrax? Hydrax? 

ZARGO: 

Where did you see this? 

CAMILLA:

 Be silent. 

ZARGO: 

Those records were destroyed. 

CAMILLA:

 I said be silent. 

DOCTOR: 

No, please don't be silent. It's so fascinating. 

(Habris enters.) 

HABRIS: 

My lord, it is time. 

ZARGO: 

How dare you interrupt us!

HABRIS: 

Aukon has seen the sign. The Arising is at hand. 

CAMILLA: 

The Arising? Leave us. 

(Habris leaves.) 

ZARGO: 

We must go to him. 

CAMILLA: 

We shall resume this later. 
If you need anything, there are guards outside the door. 
Many guards. 

(The doors slam shut behind Zargo and Camilla.) 

DOCTOR: 

You know something? I don't think they want to be followed. Let's sit down. 

(The Doctor tries Camilla's throne, then Zargo's.) 

DOCTOR: 

Oh yes, this is much more comfortable. What were those Hydrax officers called? 

ROMANA: 

Captain Miles Sharkey, Navigation Officer Lauren MacMillan, Science Officer Anthony O'Connor. 

DOCTOR:

 That's very good. Have you ever heard of the Brothers Grimm? 

ROMANA: 

This is no time for fairy tales. 

DOCTOR: 

They also discovered the Law of Consonantal Shift. How language changes over the years. 

ROMANA: 

You mean the hard sounds softening, B's becoming V's and so on. 

DOCTOR: 

Hmm. 

ROMANA: 

Camilla, Aukon and Zargo. 

Wait a minute: 
Sharkey, Zharkey, Zarkey, Zar, Zargo. 

The same name passed down through generations. 

DOCTOR: 

That's right. And MacMillan becomes? 

ROMANA: 

Camilla. 

DOCTOR: 

And O'Connor becomes?

ROMANA: 

Aukon. The descendants of the original ship's officers. 

DOCTOR: 

Yes. And this is the original ship. 

The pilot here, co-pilot there. 

No, no, no, pilot there, co-pilot here. Instrument banks there, control panels there. 

ROMANA: 

You mean this is the Hydrax, the explorer ship? 

DOCTOR: 

Yes. Do you fancy exploring it? 

ROMANA:

 Mmm. 

(The Doctor gets up.) 

DOCTOR: 

Inspection hatch. 

ROMANA: 

Ahem. Doctor? 

(Romana has found something by the side of the wooden throne.) 

DOCTOR: 

Shush. Inspection hatch. 

ROMANA: 

Doctor. 

DOCTOR: 

Hmm? 

(The Doctor goes to where Romana is pointing.) 

DOCTOR: 

Romana!! I've found the inspection hatch!

[Resting place]

AUKON: 

When my servants were seeking the Doctor, I sensed another alien mind not far away. I traced it to the village and here he is. 

The first of the Chosen Ones, at last. 

ZARGO: 

But he is an alien. He must have come with the two strangers. 

CAMILLA: 

The Chosen Ones were to be from amongst the peasants. 

AUKON: 

We have bred dullness, conformity, obedience into those clods for twenty generations. 

Unfortunately, we have also bred out just those qualities we need for other purposes. 

ZARGO: 

This disturbs me, Aukon. 

CAMILLA: 

We have been talking to this Doctor and his companion. 

ZARGO: 

The Doctor's mind is powerful, but he is dangerous. He must die. 

AUKON: 

Not before I have questioned him. 

ZARGO: 

I say he is dangerous and must die. The boy too. 

We need no aliens to join us. 

Let him feed the Great One with his blood. 

(Adric stares blankly ahead as Zargo waves his dagger in front of his eyes.) 

AUKON: 

The boy is still young. 

His mind is strong, clear, but malleable. 

We can make of him what we wish. 

CAMILLA: 

Aukon is right. 

What does it matter where he comes from? 

Once he is initiated, he is ours. 

We must increase our numbers as the Great One commands or he will be angry. 

And such a handsome child. 

AUKON: 

I will take him to be prepared. Come.