These Drillers perform medical procedures but it is not known if they even know anything about surgery. In reality the procedure is simple; dig a small hole into the head and lay wires which connect with a certain part of the brain.

A curse was lain upon society when neuroscientists discovered the location of the parts of the brain which produce sexual orgasm. Worse yet to find the specific region which, when stimulated, sets off all of the other required regions of the brain.

It was only a matter of time before someone would figure out how to run a wire down into this orgasm producing region and then touch a small battery to the ends of the wires.

Sometimes I dread coming to work for I know that on that day I will see people with wires dangling from their heads who have torn themselves apart for plesaure.

Some called it a sexual revolution but these people don't really have sex. Though it is true that the driller's trade has brought down the incidence of colds and flues, this is not a happy tradeoff. Everyone thought that the human race was doomed when all these people began to get colds and flues. A generation that had discovered these diseases which had been cured for decades. Some of them were astounded to find out that at one time colds were not only legal but that nearly everyone got high on them, whether they liked it or not.

I guess that this is why they call it "The Plague of the Drillers", because the people who sold colds and flues were called "PLAGUE". The Drillers took over so easily because they only had to perform one operation, whereas the "PLAGUE" had to put people up in "The Sickhouse" until the week long journey was over. This made getting sick more expensive than drilling for sex.

At the same time the brain sciences had advanced enough to describe just how it is that the brain produces much more complex rewards. Rewards often associated with a lifetime of working in most cultures; a family, a home, a carreer, a community life, etc... .

When the Drillers learned of the location of these long term or higher reward centers, they learned how to "JACK" them into their systems. Soon their customers were feeling good about their entire life situation. Even if poor, they could feel like they had everything.

Several orgasms, with the flick of a switch, was one thing, but to feel like you had everything; family, home, community life, etc.... , was even more threatening, to the societies of the world, than this 'moment' of sexual pleasure. Not since the Crack epidemic, way back in the last century, had so many people felt like they had everything when they really had nothing more than "Hyperactive Reward Centers" in their brains.

The news that scientists had found the location in the brain that helps people recognize lifetime acheivements made most people feel more valuble to their societies. They realized that it was not all for nothing. That a life of hard work, in their particular culture, was biological and healthy. But others chose the short cut and likewise felt that they had very satisfying lives.