On Blue Planet ‘Terra’ orbit 3, G2V ‘Sol’ in ‘Milky Way’ Virgo super cluster
naware, they are, of deep irony invoking spilt milk at the swathe of starlight girding that ever so black night sky journeying astride their nocturnal travels, as though fey prescience gleaned an uncharacteristic spillage abreast, if not upon, the celestial coder’s keyboard.
What I mean to say, esteemed guardians, is how prophetically the ancients of Earth sculpted eons of subsequent human thought so acutely.
And how crass heirs to this noble legion toss such immense wisdom aside as mere confectionary wrappings.
I must, however, put aside the invidious and lecturous tones I find so captive of the mood for yet unheeded lessons, and instead deliver that serious assessment now due on Planet Three, the blue one.
Sapience
Ever I suggest this bustling global village comprises mostly vacuous egos.
Of sapience, the twixt is without insight, aware only of a" self-awareness" and dimly so, for direct enquiry elicits perplexity, or at best chagrin.
Those of clarity populate a distressing diversity of it; a majority accurately grasp its meaning, hell-bent upon pursuits of flesh or trifles, but only the minority pay it more than lip service.
When God’s voice fell silent it occurred they might differ from "animals" - even if as the only ‘animal’ hearing Gods!. Whereupon the next great revelation: "I am self-aware, therefore great" cast them into an unrippling pool of stagnant intellect from which it seems we must wait an agony of eons for them to emerge, compared with the time it took their body to manifest from nutrient slime.
Consensus
Group-wise, consensus is comprehensively railroaded. As a vector of progress and hope it spins as compass at pole. Delusion more apt a term.
Intellect
Prima facie I see ninety percent of the population superfluous, presenting greater threat to species survival than such critical mass enhances it. Caveat: unknown spirituality, legacy essentia of infant sentience, that can only be tested by cataclysm.
The intellectual spearhead is indeed dismayful. Despite a lofty game, the raw activity is suffocatingly a selfish clawing scramble of the jungle, noble humility a bare statistical artifact.
Stripped of tools, apparel, and language, presents an arena of self-flagellating, bizarre, spiteful, naked apes. Staging this indecipherable farce sans an intellectual overlay might perplex even our most respected noosphericists, perhaps (though impossible by definition) shocking them by its utterly wanton aimless perversity.
Survival
Survival stochastic volatility indicates a problematic future. It seems a mistake to deny noospheric linkage in DNA profiles, especially in sexually-reproducing species.
Only the virgin purity of fledgling intellects flavors the prognosis with salvation.
Social
Earth’s social dance is without exception one of the most complex, and disturbingly and wastefully aimless, performances conceivable.
In fact it is not conceivable, and can only be reached by eons of empty-headed dalliance by creatures of excessive self-assumption.
A century earlier formidable social thinkers laid the platform for the third millennium’s advance. Socialisms and utopias dotted the cerebral landscape. Noble concepts were hijacked by megalomaniac criminals who tore the world apart in their name.
Barter (aka ‘economics’)
In an isolated continent, the heartland of greed, a capitalistic elite squandered this once-in-a-civilization opportunity, clutching defeat from the jaws of victory.
As each dictatorial lunatic was dispatched, these intellectually-bereft ideologues of isolation, mired in their mindless ivy league fraternity mindset, played to the ultimate trite of tribal spear-shaking espousing success of free markets over evil empires.
With the zeal of their religious heartland, the adeptness of a nation of salesmen, and the pizzazz of several hundred million aspiring thespians, they dispatched a juggernaut of evangelistic marketers to sell laissez faire to foreign primitives - collaterally destroying the seedlings of future world order.
Every and any idea offering orderly and planned advance of humankind was disparaged and besmeared as poisoning free markets and individual choice.
Like-minded scattered throughout economic hotspots of the planet laid their covetous commercial weight behind the campaign, its aim to avert the chance of an educated and scholarly pious future populace, ensuring in its stead the lowest common denominator consumer mentality.
Science and Education
Obsessing in ethic, that "Truth" be cornerstone of life’s quest, science has fallen siege to economics as if Truth is a cost, not a benefit.
Tertiary education ranges from an auction of qualification to prostitution before corporate and military funds.
If more scientists are alive today than in the entire history of science, one must sadly counter that entire history of science spawned more great scientists than are a alive today.
The absurdity of science and arts degrees as prerequisite for mundane toils of bureaucracy and industry is comical beyond belief. Centres of "higher learning" are demeaned to treadmills feeding the insatiable cravings of intellectual sweatshops.
The term "academia" is bereft, and defunct, its essence perverted.
And still stands a system of childhood enlightenment a century old and a century unchanged. The infant end spreads pliable brains like butter upon a lattice of diverse social over-correctness and ephemeral concepts of the day. Juveniles at the other end crave meaning and relevance, in its absence degenerating into the meanest and most craven social pressure cookers of fashion, arrogance, cruelty, and spite.
Here Earth stands today.
