by Abu Muswar
Last night I had this nighmare about our future. It was an apocalyptic dream where I was on the outside looking in. This vivid dream seemed to be like a warning, like something that could really happen, if we continue as we have been. I’ll take a chance and share it with you, even at the risk of looking like a nutcase.
I’m not sure what time period this was supposed to be taking place; I only know that it was far into our future, maybe hundreds of years? The future world was crowded with people to the point it was almost stiflingly and it smelled. It was overcrowded even in the urban areas that were bracketed by corporate farms that were forced to use every square foot of ground to its maximum potential just to feed this huge population.
Nationalism no longer existed as most borders had merged with other borders and smaller countries just melted away. Governments everywhere existed only to care for the needs of the people. This was the end result of socialism and multiculturalism that made borders almost pointless.
Everybody in this future world spoke two languages, the regional language and the world language. All other languages and even local customs were long gone.
The government type of choice was socialism and it had dominated the world for so many, many generations there was now a huge percentage of the population totally dependent on the government for their very survival!
Billions of people existed on a modest existence, but an existence guaranteed by their government. Poverty was gone and the masses had a universal minimum standard of fairly comfortable living, but in the process they had also become dumbed down and lost all motivation for self improvement. At least this was the case for the vast majority who accepted this mediocrity with contentment, if not resignation.
In the new socialist world disparate global societies melded into a one world society. However, there was still a great division between the haves and have-nots no matter what their geographic location was. This division had always existed, but it had never been so great as now. The haves were completely separated and isolated intellectually, socially and economically. Racism was gone, but it was replaced with acrimony and distrust between those who achieved and fended for themselves and those who didn’t. This was a volatile flashpoint that the haves quite rightly feared.
The haves were of course all very bright, industrious, well educated, motivated, and in all ways extremely capable as creative individuals or enlightened leaders. They were the innovators of industry, scientists, researchers, doctors, etc. and they had amassed great wealth, power and resources, while the overwhelming majority of the world’s populations were kept far behind, as if imprisoned by their own indifference to success.
It came to be that the masses needs were met according to the first two rungs Maslow’s Hierarchy Scale and this is where it stopped. They were more or less content with their existence and they had become generationally dependant on the achievers to provide them with their every need, albeit rationed and averaged and this kept the haves somewhat safe and at a distance from the masses, at least for the moment.
This was the setup for what followed.
At some point in time the leaders of this new socialist utopia realized the danger they were in from the restless masses who eyed their wealth and also the great destruction they had wrought on humanity by keeping so many unfit people from generation to generation while asking almost nothing of them.
All their socialist safety nets had brought along too many people, who in ancient times would have died young (Darwin’s reality). Now society was burdened with too many people, too many criminals; too much perversion, so much so that immorality was pervasive around the globe. Mental illness, substance abuse and alcoholism were rampant. This all took a great amount of societies finite resources. This behavior was also a great danger to the haves.
The world was a literally a dirty place, with garbage piling up everywhere. The streams, rivers and lakes were mostly all polluted and unfit for drinking without treatment. Even the air had a stink about it, there were just too many people…and it smelled like it.
The elite of the earth saw what they had done with all their good intentions and they were appalled. A secret council from many nations met and they discussed this problem at length. They all knew they could no longer continue this way for the end was surely near. It was time for a change of the most radical kind, an almost unthinkable change!
The vast majority of them, and this included the brightest and most capable leaders from around the world had enough of playing the role of benevolent caretakers. They were sick of losing their wealth to care for the indifferent masses of takers and they feared them. When frustrations and fear were at their highest, and when they were exasperated and desperate for change, this is when the grand scheme was concocted and it unfolded as a stealth movement among the world’s privileged bourgeois.
It was not at all a malicious or selfish movement by these global conspirators; in fact many of them saw it as the only way to save the world’s dwindling resources and to preserve mankind. They were being called upon to clean up and repair what they had done.
Their plan was brilliantly simple. They were going to move an entire class of people, the achievers and producers to a country of their own creation and then defend it with their vast resources. The elite’s plan involved slowing moving themselves to a secure region, a defensible area where they would take over and force out everyone else into the hinter land. They moved strategic factories and workers from many areas of the globe to this region and secured their borders. Everything they needed to manage the needs of their new nation was in place in about 100 years. All the reallocation of industrial might, scientific research, a strong military and an efficient farming infrastructure assured their survival once the actual separation began and the masses learned of their plan. Of course many other mega farms and large industries had to be sacrificed all around the world to keep of the grand faade to placate the takers, but these would be plundered by the masses rather than used for survival.
During the period of separation the masses would be kept at bay to fend for themselves or die. A die off on a scale never before seen would begin, but the leaders would be safe behind their fortress nation.
At the beginning of this great separation and transformation the collective IQ of the world’s population was about 112, high enough for subsistence and growth here and there. However, once the achievers were separated from the rest of the masses that collective IQ dropped to a dangerous level of ignorance and stupidity.
The horror of the great die off was beyond imagination, but in the blink of an eye in archeological time only the elite and a very few survivors on the other side were left. This was all just a dream of course, but I wonder if it was not foretelling of some inevietable catastrophe, if we don’t correct our course now?