Progress is achieved step by step. Life is the process of processes and we are its living processors. For us, information is existential light: we're brilliant when it's good, and lost when it's not.
There is no moral offense more egregious than the lie which makes every other offense a matter of course. By their own trick-or-treat philosophy, the tormentors of humankind deserve to be boiled in excrement for eternity. By the brilliance of 7 billion enlightened people, they will instead be persuaded to evolve.
True civilization has no use for physical force. We work intelligently with what we have. Nominally, at least, we already have the framework of a true civilization. It's not a bad place to be, for sure. All we have to do is make it actual.
To make democracy actual is the next logical step. It will be the end of the curated layer of so-called representatives that transfers humankind's actual political capital to the mendacity continuum. Republican forms of government, (including socialism), are designed to subvert rather than serve the public interest. Government is made rarefied and exclusive to keep the public away from private interests. Subverting the public interest requires professional intermediaries; making important decisions together does not. Without the permanent divide and conquer mechanism that is republican government, humankind will be truly emancipated.
Even without their information advantage, humankind is surpassing its existential tormentors in intelligence. Regardless, their government and full-spectrum media continues to produce their reality show with humankind cast as existential garbage on the edge of the abyss. Consider the utter contempt for humankind that it takes to do that. They have no interest in our well-being. They can't persuade us from a position of honesty, so they have us fooled. In their foolish supremacist construct, the framework of civilization is turned against the public. Here we are being liberated from their conceptual prisons. This is our Wizard of Oz moment.
This world of theirs is an elaborate lie. They play this game, not because they like pretending, but because sapience demands a moral existence. Now that we know it's merely a ruse, we can make it actual, beginning with actual democracy. Don't let them claim ownership of the good things anymore. They don't practice democracy, let alone "export" it. Republican popularity contests do not democracy make. Consider, by contrast, that they never claim to export republicanism.
In this existential horror show, only the Devil's "stars" are actual. This world is all about them. The rest of us are extras, rendered abstractions by "representatives." We have been infantilized to expect that "our leaders" are responsible for doing the important things. We are reduced, like babies, to watching and consuming. Gee-wiz, what will they think of next?
In order to have the truly sapient world we require, we have to assume responsibility for doing the important things together. Most of us are already connected and involved. Until we stop buying the Devil's manifold deception, humankind will continue to be held hostage in this existential inferno. Here, in this hierarchical world fueled by bad information, humankind is not permitted to have powerful friends.
Remember the Tower of Babel, that human beings "have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do." The illuminated way is to enable, inform and gather each other. The ancient existential circus we're trapped in was devised to restrain, confound and scatter us. If it were merely a waste of time, it wouldn't be Hell.
