>>15401490Consider the following scenario:
>Ancient civilization reaches equilibrium; no vice, no vanity, perpetual balance with nature, yadayada.>Ancient civilization grows bored of its harmonious but utterly dull existence.>Ancient civilization decides to put up a grand play.>The play is a great success, the script is continously expanded.>Generation are born into the play, completely oblivious its reality.>Only few ever get properly initiated to the truth, fewer even manage to cope with it.>The script eventually turns into a rather convoluted mess. Vice, vanity and conflict, originally reintroduced only for theatrical means, metastasize.>Over time more and more elders die, some at the hands of the generations that have been denied their past, forced to life a lie in the present and sacrifice their future.>(...)In short, in the words of Orwell:
>“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”There is no conspiracy, only a cargocult. We are timeless stragglers and I doubt we'll ever manage to piece our past together.
