Vol 1: The Disruption Protocol - Ch 1 (Pt 1): The Controlling Oligarchy, of Which I Am One

But if you do not understand (which we know will be the case for many), learn before you censure. For he shows himself a rash judge who issues a sentence in a case before understanding the truth of it. Learn first this art, then judge. But if you cannot understand it, blame not it (since it is good) but your dull abilities. For I know and am certain that no one of sound mind can censure this work of ours unless it happens that he is completely ignorant. But those who are more familiar with spurning wisdom than learning it, I neither desire nor wish them to enter into these our mysteries.

(Harrington)

From my home and offices on the seventy-fifth through eighty-seventh floors I can see the Hudson river. Each spring I notice it looks a little healthier. The radiation zones to the south will soon be fit for human habitation, if only, at first, by the brave workers who will rebuild them in accordance with plans reflecting the Prophetic Visions and Edicts of the Holy Supreme Council.

There is so much space and such an abundance of natural resources in our new world that it was not a terribly difficult decision to make. We decided, together, that some of the world’s most beautiful and productive areas, rich in natural and human resources, had to be obliterated in what were essentially self-inflicted thermonuclear strikes.

But long before that, humankind was already struggling to survive. We had already endured through the great planetary crises of human infertility, disease, and the Earth Purge. It is unavoidably true that difficult decisions were made during those earlier times.

Far below my offices, the streets are busy with mostly pedestrian traffic and a relative few ground-based autonomous delivery vehicles. The people who move at street level function in accordance with their assigned roles, attributes, and abilities.

I’m reminded just now of the great Prophet Of Old, the Fabian Shaw, who was among the first to express boldly in writing his preliminary thoughts about how an elite class might in the future decide whether and for how long any individual member of the lower classes should be caused to live. Individual citizens of these lower classes would exist, and would continue to exist, because the elites decided each of them should exist. People would exist if they were necessary to serve the needs of the world, the society, and the controlling oligarchy. Today, it’s not necessary—and would actually be considered impolite—to speak of such things. In such stark terms, I mean.

The controlling oligarchy have always existed, in one form or another. And now we most decidedly do exist, openly, and we certainly will always exist. Of course I’m paraphrasing the spoken words of another one of our great scientific Prophets Of Old, Huxley.

Indeed our new world still feels brave and brand new. But it’s already over a hundred and fifty years since the world population settled itself, in terms of numbers, at today’s more natural and ideal level.

Somehow this thought reminds me that it’s time to make my way down to visit my professional Administration team who, on my behalf, administer control of logistics for my Region.