A Theory

[Fenton]

I had always been worried about what kind of effect that the knowledge and acknowledgement of The Star Civ - by a large number of people - would have upon this reality.
I'm still uncertain, but it's becoming clearer that it could be a better outcome than I, at first, had feared.

I view it like this: either an extremely large number of people have lost their minds - or I have.
It would be far more comfortable for me if I genuinely believed the latter.

Because, if it is the latter, we are in serious trouble as a species.

I take some (selfish) comfort in the fact that I consider myself an Observer. I am here to witness it all. That is my destiny, nothing more.

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[Fenton]

We live in a reality of exceptionally fine balance.

Fate deemed to elevate us - our species - to a level at which we are capable of imposing rules upon ourselves, beyond those that nature gives us no choice in the matter.
It is for this reason, that we are unique amongst the sentient beings in this reality.

It transpires that rules are extremely important. Who would have guessed it?

Not so much the rules themselves, but rather the balance of those rules.

No rules is at one end of the spectrum - and too many rules at the other end.

We are somewhere in the middle of that spectrum. It is an extremely delicate fulcrum, hovering between no rules and too many rules.
It keeps us all sane.

I could go on, but after a while, I begin to bore myself. I'm listening to Ween while I'm typing this and they absolutely blow me away. It is such a joy to recognise a couple of human beings that are having so much fun doing what they love - and creating an absolutely unique sound that is nectar to a fellow understander. Understander - yeah, that describes it perfectly. Another fellow human being that gets it.

But I digress, as does this entire thread.

The scale of the story of The Starciv is almost too large to comprehend.

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[Fenton]

Where does this lead to?

What is the point of knowing, if the belief is not transferable from one to another?
If each constituant part of the whole is disconnected from the next - and unable to transfer from one to another?

It leads to this.

This is both good - and bad.

It's good, because it gives me an out.
If it's an impossible task, then I have an excuse to do nothing. Just observe. Watch events unfold.

It's bad, because there may be a way to reconnect us all, hidden.
And that means I'm having to look for it, which takes up a lot of my time. A LOT.

I consider myself fickle, yet I am quite tenacious. This is all very contradictory.
Part of being human, I suppose.

You cannot know the wonder and relief. You simply cannot.

We are moving into exceptionally scary times.
We must begin to consider that we CAN all work as one, without losing our individual identities.
That it is possible to unite around a single idea - an idea so exceptionally beautiful, simple and self-evident that it needs no explanation.

But, I am the mad one, here. Somehow. LOL. It's real, it's really real. I had no idea madness could be so good.

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[Fenton]

The madness continues to envelop me. It is making interactions with the world outside my door ever more difficult.
I'm not looking for sympathy, I am merely being honest.

I am always interested to see the Olympic Games opening ceremony. You know, for all the symbology.
Sweet Jesus, what was the French Olympics opening ceremony? I literally cannot believe that they took the chance to stage it out on the streets of Paris where it might rain. And boy, did it, LOL. I'm guessing they didn't have the money (or, perhaps the willpower) to build an Olympic Stadium, so they just went with the cheap(er) 'let's use what we already got' option.

Historically, societies have been/are built on common bonds. I'm not sure there are many common bonds left.

No doubt, many will call the opening ceremony a triumph of ingenuity - and then I will know that they do not see what I see.

Anyway, let's have some happy thoughts. I've been creating what I call 'long-run Field System' collages, whereby I stitch aerial photos together to form a true picture of just how magnificent The Field System was. Some of them are 30k pixels wide, so there is absolutely no chance that I can post the full-sized image here, but I can post a resized version with lower detail.
I'd like to see some of these on a 30k monitor, if such a thing exists.

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If you are on a PC browser, right click the image and choose open in new tab or window. It'll be a bit bigger. You should be able to zoom in even further. If you can be bothered, of course. I would have said arsed instead of bothered, but it's an English colloquialism, so maybe not everyone would understand. Better safe than sorry.

But I ramble.
I see some future where that is all there is left to do. Perhaps a smattering of muttering for light relief, as well.

Keep it upbeat, Fenton.

Tired, going to bed.

[Fenton]

I'm not sure what to do.

Is it more humane to watch an untroubled sleepwalker trundle towards terminal self-destruction, or to jolt them awake - and face their ire?

There are answers to questions that I never believed I would have to ask.

If you could know the future, would you want to?

You see, the thing is, I don't like to know the future. I believe in Fate - and she's gonna do what she's gonna do. It keeps life surprising, for me at least.

Do we all like it when other people are kind to us? Do we all like feeling a valued part of something? Do we all like other people to care about us?
I fully understand that I am living in the equal and balancing opposite of The StarCiv, but that does not preclude me from dreaming.

Ultimately, only Fate knows.

Even a wise man can make stupid mistakes. Ooo, that sounds deep.

Believe me, for every excellent, there is a balancing awful.

I was going to write about the social structure of the StarCiv, tonight - started to, in fact - but began to bore myself after a couple of paragraphs, so here is a picture. Originally, The Star would have been completely surrounded by floorboard Field System, a part of which is shown. A Satellite looks like it was connected at close range to the Star. There may have been an outer ring of Satellites amongst the Field System, too.
I can just about envisage how stunning it must have been.

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[Fenton]

It is actually a very, very simple trick - yet devastatingly effective - that our iteration of the human species has had played upon itself.

This trick has placed us all within a conundrum which is seemingly impossible to break. We are locked in, tight.

During the period of The StarCiv, every human being understood the Nature of the reality in which we all collectively exist. That our reality ultimately allows for staggering beauty of environment and a collective peace of mind that our civilisation can only dream of. But, this comes at a price - as does everything within our reality - and the price of that kind of life is the knowledge that everything can come to an end at a moments notice.
For no reason. It is the chaos that balances order.

At the end of The StarCiv, a group of survivors had a new idea. It was literally a new concept, never conceived before.
We should all be more selfish, live our own lives to the full, individually grab everything we can, because at the end of the line lies death - and once the individual dies, the reality in which they exist ends.

We are now seeing the end-state fruits of this mentality.

The Nature of our reality decided the fate of The StarCiv - our civilisation is going to decide it's own fate.
Nature gave The Starciv many thousands of years - we are giving ourselves considerably less, a balancing far shorter period.
We will end our civilisation by our own hand.

And there will be no room for anything, afterwards.

They left purity and abundance, we are in great peril of leaving a dead-end.

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[Fenton]

There is much I could write about, but I am unsure whether I have the will to, or not. We'll see.

Does it seem to you like the world is becoming a worse place to live in?
But you don't want to talk about it, because it's a horrible thing to talk about?
It's a conundrum, isn't it?

In lighting the darkness, we expel the fear.

I was thinking about what is love? tonight. I did not have a clue what love was, up until I met my wife. She has continued to teach me what love is for the last 40 years. It transpires that I have many different kinds of love - one kind of love for my wife, another for my children, another for my cat. I have a different kind of love for my friends and relatives, just as I have another kind of love for a good Indian meal. You get the idea.

What it must have been - to have been - a human being who lived in The StarCiv.
No concept of war, just peace.
No hatred, for there was nothing to hate for.

The longer it gets more complicated, the bigger the hole we are digging for ourselves.

They, however, lived simple, uncomplicated lives.

Just take a look at all the all other species we share this reality with.
We haven't seen the cat species developing technology, have we?
All of these other species live in harmony with Nature.
They survive and procreate. That is it.

This was the fundamental tenet of The StarCiv.
Except, they also used human ingenuity and wisdom to make their home more beautiful and majestic for whoever came after them.

Whilst thinking, I also started to see more truth about our history. It's intriguing, to say the least.
You will never guess, so don't bother. It takes insanity to see a past like this.

But at least, if we know the truth, we can decide whether or not we want the future to be left in the hands of a species of people that know nothing of their past.

Because, that's who we are.

I'm now going to spend a while picking a photo or map for this post.

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[Fenton]

A lost or hidden civilisation can be judged by that which it achieved.

To achieve that which it did, the mindset of that civilisation will then come to light.

How can I take you on a journey that has invaded my life?

Which words can I use, strung into sentences, that will not sound hackneyed and frayed by that which we have become?

We are a species that hides from itself, inventing tales to protect our children from reality.
We carry those lies into our adult lives, at a terrible cost.

Lies, lives.
A single letter added to sum our existence. Lives - a lie, with an added sound.

In showing you the majesty of what they were, I must also show you that which we have become.

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[Fenton]

Sometimes when writing these posts, I just sit here and think.

I'm thinking about how I am going to collate a few of the last few days random thoughts - to present them together, as a cogent whole.

OK, it began three days ago, when I suddenly started thinking about history from a new angle.
I reasoned thus: I know our history is completely and absolutely made-up, pretend, fiction - because of The StarCiv.

Currently, from the past until now, we paint ourselves as having once been savages, evolving through all the stages that we have been in, until now, where we have reached the pinnacle of human evolution. We have technology, sophistication, many many goods and services.

A mighty abundance for all those prepared to kill - or have others kill for them - to retain that which they believe is rightfully theirs.

It transpires that our history is actually a reverse blueprint for where we are headed. The minds behind this scheme are mighty smart indeed.

So, anyway, having realised the above, I began to realise why they are pushing Artificial Intelligence so hard. Lots of data centres are springing up, everywhere, to feed this hungry new idol.

But first, let's step back in time for a moment, to when the first great form of control was imposed on the remnants of the StarCiv - the concept of God.

I've never been religious, but even I know the following about God - omnipotent, everwhere all at once, seeing and hearing everything you do.
Seeing and hearing everything.

It's incredible what an idea can do to human beings.

Then came an even more powerful form of control - money.
Far more powerful than religion, it would capture every human being in existence, regardless of their beliefs.
Technology allowed it to expand, to the point where individuals could have wealth into the tens or hundreds of zeros.

But now, there is an even greater system of control at their disposal.

AI.

It would be a shame not to use it.

Here's how it will work -

Our every move is being monitored - and has been for quite some time. All of these data points will be fed into giant binary machines that will, quite literally, be able to tell you where you were, who you were with and what you were doing at any point in your past. Moment by moment. They will know you better than yourself.

This is the new God, same as the old.

Since I began writing this post, I have had an epiphony.

The aim of this reality, this life, this game, is not to win or lose. It is immaterial.

The aim of this game is to understand the game.

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