The low grade evil had been giving him a hard time for many years. He wasn’t sure who was behind them but it was at least at a national level and probably international.

He assumed they were security services of some kind but they seemed too pervasive for that level. He would see their antics constantly around him. Normally some nasty little scare tactic or other. They were trying to psychologically manipulate him or test him or he didn’t know and that was a part of it. It normally took the form of low grade intimidatioin and bullying. Never letting him feel secure or happy. One way or another it had been going on his whole life.

He figured that these were probably religious types. They had to believe what they were doing was for the greater good or they were just bad people. The problem with that was that there were so many that that meant a bad society. He didn’t know anymore. It didn’t really matter what their motives were the effect was to create constant fear of low level intimidation. In a just society these people would suffer what they had caused him. He still hoped for that society,

Recently he had travelled to another city and they had started first of all by mocking him. He had written a book recently where he had made the main character analogous to a pigeon and so at a station they had put a hawk to hunt pigeons and just in case he missed the hawk they helpfully used to people in the station having a dialogue where one explains to the other what was going on.

In his book he had put the main villain as a tall ginger guy and so on the train as they were just about to get off they got a tall ginger guy to stare at him. More low level intimidation as always. and they went further when he arrived at his hotel the guy on reception was a tall ginger guy who aggressively said “Have you come to check out” he said “no I have come to check in” and when he then was checked in the Ginger guy followed him really closely to the lift area. Making him feel like he would be attacked at any time. Bullied and intimidated. Not safe where he was.

He had answered a post on social media that asked “Was psychology equipped to deal with existential and philosophical questions. Can someone who is so moral wish ill on others. Is he then really moral?” This was aimed at him they were again mocking him. Because of the low grade intimidation and the depression it caused him he occasionally lashed out in the “privacy” of his own home. Wishing they would suffer they way they had made him suffer. Of course his home wasn’t private and they listened and used anything he said or did against him.

He had replied to the post saying that psychology has a replication crisis so no it can’t help him and the supposed arbiter’s of morality such as the pope were frequently accused of protecting paedophiles and so unfortunately if you are a genuinely good person the only thing he could suggest is to forget all that and try like everybody else to make as much money as possible or to become a stoic, but that is extremely difficult.

The next morning on his way to meet his daughter they had sent a building worker to test him. The worker randomly asked “Do you know where cash converters is?” He said he didn’t. This though wasn’t about cash converters this was about playing on his fears about not being in his home or even in his hotel room and telling him they were watching and could at any point just take his stuff because he was alone in this world and they were many.

His daughter wore a mushroom dress. he wasn’t a fan and he said so. To him mushrooms either were magic mushrooms or were like they say “You are like a mushroom kept in the dark and fed shit” which is metaphorically always how he felt. They went to an art gallery and a lesbian couple angrily out of the blue said they liked his daughters dress accusingly. The message was clear. You are always being watched.

He went to the museum with his daughter and they saw lots of animals but he commented on the cute rats. The next day in front of his hotel there was a dead rat. Not for the first time, was it a warning was it just the normal low grade bullying and intimidation probably.