Regressive Viral Apocalypse

in #philosophy6 years ago (edited)



The total end of liberty on earth didn’t come exactly as expected.  

The people didn’t fight the law, but the law won: They simply didn’t fight.  Around the year of our overlord, 2015, a psychic virus came out of its dormant stage and started spreading throughout the minds of the humans. This strain was the most insidious kind that has ever been seen on earth. Unlike previous evolutions of mind parasites, which would allow their hosts to hate intensely, but convince the hosts that their hatred was morally justified; this ultimate mutation actually re-wrote the perception filter to see its own hatred as Love.  

When a human host perceives its actions as ‘loving’, there’s nothing that’s off-limits.  

With the energetic shifts around that time, the new wave of empathic humans were particularly susceptible, for they were able to feel the deepest levels of pain from around them, but lacked the wisdom to channel and transmute it. This was all the virus needed to drag them into a victim consciousness spiral, which made them see only the pain. The hosts were no longer able to truly enjoy anything in life.  Everything had to be analysed and censored in real-time until the all the joy was drained out of any activity. This caused the host’s happiness and self-esteem to plummet, which, in turn, lead them to seeking out more perceived oppressors.

Naturally, this caused them to group together with other infected humans and to adopt abhorrent ideologies and behaviours. The virus’s self-awareness was growing inside the expanding hive mind. The individual infected (what remained of them) knew something was wrong with the world, but with the virus’s influence they were never going to identify any real sources of the problem. The closest they could get was to identify groups according to arbitrary superficial traits like race, gender, orientation, temperament, etc. That they deemed the oppressors... their enemies...  

The irony is not lost on us. The initial instinct of an infected was not of evil, it was one of compassion. This very compassion without wisdom and strength was the very weakness the virus exploited to turn its hosts into the violent zombie puppets.  

Compassion can turn into bitter resentment at the drop of a balaclava.  

We suspect that a large percentage of the immune population knew that the infected were acting this way due to some sickness; but just like with a rabid dog, just because it’s sick, and you ‘feel’ for it, doesn’t mean you’re going to let it bite you. At first, the immune wanted to help the infected, to cure them. They soon realized that they, themselves were too peaceful and too logical to defend against the infected, emotionally-deranged hordes.

The infected started to band together in mobs, destroying property, chanting war cries which lacked any coherence, and violently attacking anyone who was not yet infected. It was getting a bit too dangerous for the healthy to even be around the infected. With heavy hearts, the immune lovers of liberty cried out for help to their oldest enemy: the state. With the support of the immune, the state responded swiftly, branding the infected as terrorists and putting them all in camps.

After a few days of celebration, the immune had realised the severity of what they had done.  The state now had total control over their world... anyone, along with the immune would now be put into the camps alongside the infected if one would so much as speak out of turn...   

It’s almost as if... this was the plan all along...    


~Fin~

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Greetings! The dynamics you are describing are more complex than has been mostly realised yet. To state that those who are not apparently involved with the events being described are too 'logical and peaceful' infers that they really don't have any involvement. However, real peace cannot be the experience without having emotionally processed the sickened, denied and unconscious aspects of self that are often powering things from behind the scenes. As of this timing, few have even begun to do this. In these unhealed states, it can often be the outwardly most 'peaceful' who are the greatest reservoirs of rage, hatred and terror - but these emotions in them are denied and well hidden. A common result of this is that they will often look into the world around them and see (not feel) the unbalanced emotions - then conclude that they themselves are somehow 'better' or more 'wise' than the ones embodying the emotions and then conclude they either need to 'fix' the situation or in any case that they that themselves are not directly responsible. The mechanic being missed is that once emotions have been denied, they can then fragment outwards energetically into other beings who are more empathic and emotionally active. So the 'home base' or 'ground zero' for a great deal of emotional issues is not actually those expressing the emotions at all. It is metaphorically like a 'scientist' who develops an 'anti virus' for all the sick people 'out there' actually being himself, one of the main carriers of the virus - never administering it to himself because he has no idea he is sick.

I agree that there are many who are channeling emotional energy without knowing how to process it in a balanced way - I am just pointing out that just because someone is unemotional, does not make them more balanced or more evolved.

I wrote this on hate a while ago - you might find it relevant: https://steemit.com/health/@ura-soul/article-common-misundertandings-about-hate-hate-is-not-wrong-it-is-only-a-valid-response-of-extreme-dislike

Thanks for the deep and thought out response... I agree that I should have elaborated on who I deemed 'immune'.... I'm at least glad this kind of conversation is actually happening... I'll try not to oversimplify these things in my future ramblings.... Your article was a very good read, and I can't really add anything to it which you didn't already say.... Thank you so much for your time sir...

thanks for sharing this information.

Great story! Following.

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