Where is humankind?
Did human
consciousness change along centuries and millennia?
Disrespect for our environment, religious
intolerance, greed, selfishness… I did my reading, history and religious texts
and books.
My conclusion? Not much. Add to all this
the unstoppable population growth, the overpopulation and the insane resource
consumption.
Did
our life standards improve along centuries?
My take? A lot. For some of us. I would
dare say that the average individual in western world lives better than kings
few hundred years back. I remember a chronicle about the life during king Louis
XIV, the Sun King; the cold and ugly smelling palaces (no toilets), sticks to
scratch under the wigs for head lice, health problems…
So, we do better today. All this done
because of human technology advances: internet, cars, airplanes, medical
assistance, you name it…
So, what is wrong?
Technologies
advanced much faster that human consciousness; and technology out of control
generates disasters.
Discoveries and innovation based on
research in chemistry, biology, quantum physics, information technology,
transportation… make our life better, but could be used for destruction in the
worse imaginable ways.
Can
our society fix itself, and avoid self-destruction?
NO.
Why? There are mathematical theories that a
system cannot fix itself from inside. The mechanisms to fix the system will
alter it, and so, it is different than when the project started, it is catch 22
situation.
What
can be done?
If humankind deserved being saved, it will
happen, help from above. Aliens? or gods?
But does indeed human society deserve
saving?
My book The World Ends Tomorrow
describes such a scenario.
Fracony, a supercivilization that visited
Earth periodically, built models forecasting that an apocalypse generated by
humans themselves is inevitable.
They discovered a baby girl, Clara, with
very special qualities, a research accident from a lab that tried to match man
and women for best offspring. Clara was raised and trained all her life to take
over the world leadership and prevent or diminish the consequences of an
apocalypse.
And the disater came as a biological
apocalypse from a virus escaping from a research lab.
Clara can communicate with Fracony, but her
training could not foresee everything, and Fracony might have their plans about
what really means saving humanity, or the price to pay.
What is good and bad have different
definitions in normal times versus crisis situations, and when human race was
at stake that line between right or wrong was blurry and shifting until became
non-existent. Principles transformed into
self preservation, fear in divine punishment transformed into anger. Who could
rule such a world?
The action is four hundred years into the
future, and only two countries sharing the planet, Gaia and Esperanto. Clara
was ruling Esperanto as its Secretary. She had to navigate among centrifuge
interests and ideas and take bold and heartbreaking decisions. Will she succeed
or collapse before reaching the end of the tunnel?
The World Ends Tomorrow Happy Reading!!
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