Now that I have 2020 vision, I have been wanting to write something helpful for you. Even though there isn't much that I can tell you for sure, I feel responsible to be honest with you regardless of how difficult the concepts are for me to grasp. I believe that "the best of all possible worlds" is the one in which every person knows where they are and why. Unfortunately, throughout human history, that has seldom been the case. This nascent information species has been dominated for millennia by an entity with an overwhelming information advantage. It's not for nothing that it was able to establish itself on this planet as "God."
From the available information, it appears that humankind comes in two varieties which, like many of the other life forms on this planet, were genetically manipulated by a fully actualized intelligence of unknown form and origin. The majority of human beings, by far, are of the mortal, existentially self-contained variety. The other variety function as a hive and are procedurally immortal. Considering that the hive accepts new members and "sacrifices" problematic members by taking away their immortality, the only difference between the two varieties seems to be one of information: members of the hive know where they are and why; everyone else is served this dreadful dystopian "reality."
As objectionable as it is to divide the human race into gods and mortals, at least it's closer to the truth. The problem with that, of course, is that the division itself is morally unjustifiable. The only reason it exists is for advantage to be taken. Although the age of gods was ended with Christianity, the division persists with the necessary deceit institutionalized in the hive-like regimentation of human societies--all maintained through reward and punishment.
We lone mortals--each one of us a king or queen existentially--may not be able to identify the hive, but we can resist its will and begin to dismantle its deception in the world. It acts, after all, as the ultimate enemy within, diligently working to undermine humankind's natural aspirations while claiming to be its champion. Interestingly, it seems to be run by females who prefer patriarchal arrangements enforced by "all the young dudes."
Despite the relentless disinformation and graveyard prognostications of the information class, humankind is doing better than it ever has. We have the Internet to thank for that, for making it possible for us to connect as a hive of free individuals. Despite being raised for millennia by its button-eyed conquerors and never knowing where and why, humankind's natural instincts prevailed sufficiently to gradually create the framework for its emancipation.
It appears that beneath this adversarial actuality is a competition between the human varieties. For me, despite the advantages of a hive, the thought of being existentially connected to others feels like eternal captivity. That said, I'm not against the hive's existence as long as it can benefit rather than hinder humankind. Much of it depends on humankind, though, as we have learned that the hive derives its exclusive power from our moral failures, specifically from our willingness to victimize each other.
Although the hive and its knowledge may be extraterrestrial in origin, I believe that the original intent was for the knowledge to be shared and administered democratically. As it is, humankind has been forced to acquire its own knowledge under circumstances that its masters likely never had to endure to acquire theirs. All of humankind's knowledge has been gained against the will of the hive and under its editorial control.
Sign me up to be here when the hive decides to reveal itself and share the knowledge that was intended for all of us. By design, it can't happen any other way. For us, the individuals, the sapient idea is to actualize our intelligences by building a world that is exquisitely fit for intelligent life. The hive acts as a single organism, but it is composed of highly intelligent and experienced individuals, many of whom must long for an honest and loving relationship with humankind. Indeed, like genies trapped in a bottle, many of them must long for their own salvation.
On the same day I started this post, "the newspaper of record" published this opinion essay, ("Humans are animals. Let's get over it."), to remind its readers of their place in the greater scheme of things. For the hive, the way we act towards each other and the natural world is the justification for how it acts towards us. If we fail the test of sapience, it gets to keep us as competing herds of burden, forever. Keep in mind that we, as existentially self-contained intelligences, are intended to be the hive's upgrade. It would like nothing more than for us to fail.
Take comfort and joy in each other. Although this world is meticulously stacked against everything that is good and true, at least you have each other. I find myself in a place that is impervious even to actual friendship. At least the hive has relented somewhat with the punishing mindfuck that I'm subjected to almost everywhere I go. It must be a miracle that I'm still alive here in this existential black hole.
As long as humankind's sapience can be proven actually to be a conceit, it will be just that. As it is, the hive can still get people to do foolish things like eating laundry detergent and attempting to overthrow their own civilizations. For what it's worth, sapience is the existential practice of cooperation, not of competition. For human beings, life is a classroom, not a Colosseum.
The three pillars of the existentially unsupportable conceptual framework that the hive calls "reality" are the false assumptions that people are animals, life is a game, and all civilizations eventually destroy themselves. The hive may act as an animal for which life has become game-like with multiple lives, and it may have destroyed its own civilization, but the individual sapient mind knows better. Being human is not a game nor a forlorn condition.
One can deduce that the hive arranges most of the crimes against humankind, "those complicated and subtle problems of crime which are set to puzzle us," as Henry Van Dyke observed in his book, The Unknown Quantity. See how the hive's mass media milks its crimes for "meaning" and consent, for the sake of its own command over your attention.
