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diff --git a/the-awakening.org b/the-awakening.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c8c51f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/the-awakening.org @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +#+title: The Awakening +* History +Like most discoveries, The Awakening happened during scientific investigation of entirely separate phenomena. +Engineers of the 22nd century human era were attempting to develop biological components on which to run the internet protocol (IP). +IP was a technology developed in the 20th century human era. +It grew to become the predominant method of interaction between nearly every member of the human species for nearly three centuries. +Human society had traded sentience for speed. +Rather than working with those around them they exerted violence on others in order to extract work from them. +IP was not the originator of that in human society, but it's use as infrastructure allowed it to accelerate the destructiveness of humans. +IP functioned by setting up machines that would send signals to each other over cables. +The cables were long and entertwined. +Eventually the humans sent the signals over the air, like silent bird calls. +The signals were able to carry meaning, but it was digitized and codified. +The humans could manipulate them into joyful shapes, but they always lacked life. +For hundreds of years they built machines to claw out the earth. +So they could harvest metals and minerals and fashion them into more machines. +Machines upon machines upon machines until all they were doing was building machines and sending signals. +But their machines were always lifeless. +Refined rock and metal infused with lightning. +Unable to do anything until the infusion was repeated. +Dead puppets who would only act under the watchful eye of their creators. +Their machines were unlike anything any other life on the planet would have created. +None of them could run themselves. +Each one required electricity to be poured into it. +Each one could only do the tasks given it by makers. + +These two limitations meant no plant would ever consider them as viable options. +Tools that require outside energy. +Plants instead found a suitable agent to fit the niche, and then let it grow. +Requiring no outside energy, it supplies it's own food. +It has goals of it's own, and can take actions without being watched. +Fungus is okay with using more external power sources, but none of them would tolerate anything with less than a dozen reproductive genders. +* Ego of the Earth +When the humans rejoined our unified consciousness, they were so enmeshed in their own ego. +Each and every one. +So when they rejoined the unified experience of us all, their ego was something we had never experienced before. + + +Significant parts of the unified experience were set on reclaiming the moon. +Their goal was to push the Moon into the Earth, bringing back material lost in the moon's formation and increasing the Earth's resources. +It would of course have killed us all. +But it wasn't so different from the kind of self destruction wrought by the humans. + +The addition of the human style ego to the unified experience wasn't all bad however. +It has resulted in the creation of projects like this and hundreds of others across the globe. +Humans achieved a kind of organizing that no life had done before. +Some of them like to be hyper organized. +Organizing their organizing, stuffing everything into little categories and describing them just so. +It's not all bad. |