Last Friday, I transmitted the packet of my first two weeks of Tumblr observations to my generous sponsors at the Geographical Society.
It is my responsibility to inform them of all of my progress; honored as I am to be part of such a prestigious endeavor, I did so quite willingly.
However, the communication I received in return sent a chill down my spine:
Tumblr’s ecosystem, while healthy and thriving far beyond what I expected when I arrived, is still enormously fragile.
So I worry: if the Society, under the President’s direction, were to spend the next issue of their influential Journal using my observations to support encouragements for renewed commercial usage, or perhaps migration… the consequences are too dire to even imagine.
(A solution came to me nearly instantly. If I fabricate my observations, or censor the ones that indicate the truth of all of Tumblr’s possibilities, the Society might be misdirected, away from the fertile blue plains of this miraculous place.
But am I willing to go against the standards of truth set by my profession, and risk the end of my enterprise altogether, in order to preserve the peace of a land I only just arrived to?)
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