If the world ends today, an entity approach our solar system by following our radio signature, would have when they reached this point in time, heard a deafening roar suddenly go silent. If you think of every cell phone,every radio, television station, every phone call on going across this planet daily, it must be a deafening roar indeed. I can’t even imagine what it would sound like. A black hole perhaps?
Naturally they would be curious. Being curious they would start from the silence and work back. So in the spirit of telling our civilization’s tale, let me begin to set the record for why a once wonderful and fantastic world, dissolved into oblivion and nothingness.
You see, we are evolutionary creatures… We are all selfish and concerned with our own survival and future well-being. We can’t really be faulted for that. What happens across the life of all great civilizations is that we eventually evolve into something not so great. Here, we evolve into allowing tyranny to take over our lives and for whatever reason, convinced ourselves to backing them instead of what was in our own best interests.
Our collapse was caused by our own undoing. We failed to put our own survival first and foremost and instead chose to put our faith in silly dreams; we woke up too late to change the course set by the actions in our sleep.
This is not new for us. Back when civilizations were young, we repeatedly fell behind a forceful leader. Great governments always evolved from being responsible to all its people, to becoming responsible to increasing the wealth of just a few, those who were the most powerful. That for the most part, is where our civilization went wrong…
How could we go from being so smart, to being so stupid you must ask? Well it took a little time, and a long peaceful interlude to allow it to happen. After every interlude of peace on our planet, people eventually forget and succumb to a great and terrible war that destroys all we put together.
As survivors of previous wars die, with them goes the untold horror and the first-hand experiences coupled with it. Lack of awareness makes the stakes of going to war appear only in a positive light. Only when our war turns bad, do we realize our mistake. Then it is too late.
We had institutions in place to stop war, but our leaders refused to use them. Reveling in their show of power, they lead us down a stupid course solely to bolster their own ego, and lost control in their handling of events. We descended into a battle destroying civilization.
Some of us may survive, but if so, we are now surviving in a primate state, unable to control those electromagnetic impulses that are necessary for interplanetary civilization. As with any loss of civilized structure, we’ve now descended into chaos. We are simply reduced to trying to keep ourselves safe long enough to have children.
How could we have done this? The answer is that it wasn’t hard at all; it was very easy. We were baited, we ignored the warnings, we nibbled the baited hook, and in the very early stages, we did not spit it out quick enough. Once dug in, the forces drawing us in grew all powerful, and they chose to engage a foolish war, counting on us being able to stop it before we incurred lasting damage. On that last part, they miscalculated; we are now at this point.
It started when we took restraints off our fairness doctrine. Prior we said that to defeat propaganda from taking root, all single communication entities had to be held accountable to telling truth. The opposing argument was made that in a free society, forcing truth on people was offensive to those who chose to believe in fantasy, and unfortunately that argument won out. If people wanted to believe in fabrications, we decided in a free society, they should be allowed the freedom to do so… In practicality that turned out to be dangerous. Powerful interests developed a propaganda network that argued solely to bolster the power and wealth of its richest members,and we blindly allowed it to monopolize communication across a large swaths of out planet’s most powerful nation.
These propagandists argued for the selection of a tyrant and in a vacuum of information, many of our people chose to believe them. Deception was used. Obfuscation was used. Truth was defused into multiple tiny parts so discombobulated, they could never again be assembled back into a real sustaining argument.
Eventually those following these outlets of mistruth, had numbers greater than those more knowledgeable of real facts, and towards that direction we steered. Upon reaching that point, protecting wealth’s investments became our civilization’s prime goal… even at the demise of our own citizens who chose to go in that direction.
It should be understood that not everyone succumbed to the propaganda. Truth did not die out without a fight. But whenever numbers of new believers swing towards those misrepresenting it, and when those supporting what is really true fail to fight, those supporting a fantasy can indeed override what is true, then act with impunity.
This is what happened to the greatest nation on this planet at the peak of its power. Other minor nations objected to the change, but the majority of this planet’s people already lived under governments that negate their own citizens’ rights, and impose great sacrifices on their subjects. Those powerful leaders rejoiced, and our planet’s civilization darkened.
Thus, in months, we returned again after 250 years of a brief human-rights-flourish, to a point where individual human beings no longer mattered. Not you, but your classification mattered; as individuals, only the top echelons of power mattered. You were to be resigned with whatever box you got put into.
That demise came from our inability to control what was true and what was a lie. Every person voting for the tyrant did so of their own choosing. In their defense, they thought they were voting for someone supporting their own best interest. They were duped. But then, any of us receiving a false reality world of facts like they did… would probably have done the same…
In benediction, not everyone was duped. It came within a hairsbreadth of not happening. But, the untruths did win out. Truth failed. And you out there now receiving this transmission, can hopefully at some future point learn from our mistake…..