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Accept that people look at history and talk about the slow and gradual rise of progress, tiny change by tiny change over eons. You can look back and see that over a vastly long time, 8.000 or 10.000 years ago, people used exactly the same stone tools, and over a few thousand years they progressed to iron tools, and in just a few short years this species has discovered flight, space travel and cellphones and internet. The progress of the human species, and by extention of the world, has been accellerating. Even in your own short lifetimes you can see how in the first ten years of your life, things changed more slowly than in the most recent ten years.
The Mayans talked about time accellerating, and how at the end of time, the cycles would get shorter and shorter and shorter until as much change was happening in seconds as happened in thousands of years before. And just like it's taken a few thousand years now to take people from the primivite stone age to where you are now, it'll take a few thousand years before things slow down enough to be truly stable. What you will see is an increase in stability as the human species, and thus the planet, integrates this new stuff. It's been compressed to a point, and now it's slowing down. So you will perceive stability within twenty, perhaps thirty years.
The children born from this point, will be a different species. The ones who come from now, anyone born after this day, will be born a totally new thing. And those of you born in the old, you will never completely fit. You're a fish who has learned how to breathe, and you're waddling around on the shore. Children aren't much good on their own, though. Whatever the children are, fundamentally, will be shaped by the religions they believe in, the governments they follow, the tenents they are taught. You, the bootstrap generation, will be the ones to pass on the tenents with which the children grow up.
This world will never again go into a time of great darkness. If you can accept that times of light and times of darkness pass over thousands of years, just as day and night pass in your world, you may wonder how there can never again be a night.
Not so long ago, people lived in groups of ten to thirty, and died at the age of thirtyfive. Night for them was a terrifying time, they hoped each night to survive it until morning. And in a sense, this is how our world has been. Look at the dark ages, the inquisition, the horrors that have happened in our world for thousand of years now. Our history is a history of one atrocity after another. It has been a time of vast darkness, and we've been not unlike the creatures we once were, huddling around a campfire. Now, when the sun goes down, we're not huddling in the cold, afraid we won't survive till morning. Now we turn on the light and grab a good book or turn on a program.
The night time is lost to this world, and we have tamed it. Even if the power were to go out, we would curl up in our nice warm beds in our safe homes without any concern at all. In times of the great cycles of light and darkness, the light will grow and it will not be forgotten. There will come a new cycle of darkness, but we will know it is coming and prepare for it and have no fear for the beast of warfare or atrocities by church or government or crazed individuals. We'll be prepared. Cycles of light and darkness have followed your world for longer than there's been a world, and this is the first time when you wake up in the morning, and know that when the night comes, you will not have to fear. You cannot begin to understand what has happened. Only when things stabilise enough, will you be able to get some perspective on this, but that will not happen in your lifetime. Your lifetimes don't last several thousand years. So you can't understand what happened and how hugely significant it is, but you can accept that your world is changed.
Angel, 2013-10-12
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