The best future of humanity begins with Factorianism

     Our real fight is against extinction.  As important as other causes may be, they are meaningless if human beings cease to exist. We are not facing the end of Earth or the end of the Universe.  We are facing the end of the humanity as we know it.  Like the calm that comes before a storm, so is oblivion that comes before the great fall.  Blinded by our enormous success we can’t see or refuse to see our own march into the abyss.  We can’t see how we got here and we can’t see our way out, but this is not our fault.  We are always forced to think in a loop and come up with the same old conclusions.  We need a fresh perspective.  We need a new way to look on all the old problems and a new path to walk our way out of them.  We need to understand the real value of what we have.  And we need to understand the real price of loosing it all.

     Imagine a beautiful and successful society called Delirium.   The shores of this society were bathed in transparent blue waters from oceans and rivers.  The tall mountains stood majestically piercing the skies with their snowy peaks.  Endless green fields were full with colorful animals and juicy green grass.  Everywhere you looked there were tall trees spreading their green arms with fruits and leafs reaching for the golden rays of sun.  Every breath of fresh air spelled joy and every ray of warm sun hugged you like a warm blanket.  And then, there were people.  Industrious, strong, imaginative people.  And these people were so incredibly beautiful in their own skin.  They were a gorgeous pallet of colors, hair stiles, piercing eyes, and a variety of unmatched personalities in all their glory.  All this beauty was so overwhelming that every member of the humanity was delirious with joy, hence Delirium.  

     Yet, each coin has two sides to it and it can’t have Delirium written on both sides.  The other side of the coin is dark and unpleasant.  All it has are three words that someone etched very carelessly with the knife: anger, boredom, and jealousy.  They are always there.  They always whisper nonsense in human receptive ears.  They never rest.  They always think that there is more Delirium somewhere out there.  Somebody must have more Delirium and if they are not willing to share, it should be taken from them.  Besides who says that you can ever have enough of something as delicious as Delirium.  There must be more of it somewhere, hidden from the naked eye.

     People like flipping the coin, but fifty percent of the time it lands on the side of anger, boredom, and jealousy.  So, unimaginably delirious people would go to war with other delirious people just to find more Delirium.  All they would get is darkness in which they would loose some of their own Delirium.  Tired of not finding joy in war, delirious people would start to drill the Earth just in the off chance there is more of it hiding in the crust.  

     So the armies would fight and drills would drill, but no one would be even close to being more delirious and actually would feel like the Delirium they had was slipping away from them.  The cities would begin to crumble and there would be less and less people, and those people would be less and less delirious with each day.  

     Finally, people would give up on searching for Delirium,  because it would be too hard to find again.  They would start to look for something easier like Hate.  And Hate was always there in abundance.  Hate is the favorite cousin of anger, boredom, and jealously.  Once delirious people now had to start their hopeless gathering of Hate so they would feel like they are good at something.  Their cities would crumble some more under the weight of ever growing hate.  The society would stop being a society, just a bunch hatemongers roaming the open planes, hunting for more Hate.  Pretty soon everyone would give up on having any Delirium.  Everyone would have gotten enough Hate to poison their blood and all they would wish for was a swift end to the hateful humanity.  And believe it or not, one day they would get their wish.  Cities would turn into dust, the air would become a cloud of thick smoke through which even sun rays couldn’t get though.  War would scorch the land.  Trees would burn into ash.  Blue water would turn dark and lifeless.  Human blood would soak the upper layers of soil until the last human heart would stop beating.  And then the jolly Delirium society would be gone, forever.  There would be no more delirious people.  Even hate and anger would die with the last human breath, but the Earth would go on.  Deep beneath the ash and the blood, Earth would remain Earth.  Many years would path before Earth will be green and calm again, but once delirious people would be gone forever.  Like a failed experiment in life, they would be forgotten immediately.  No one in the Universe will ever know or care about how deliriously happy they used to be.

     It is astonishing how much we take for granted and it is very scary how easily we can loose it all.  This simple and sad story can happen to any human species in the Universe.  How absolutely crazy it is to know that people can write and put in motion the plan of their own demise?  How absolutely devastating it is to know that it is very easy to loose all the progress made through centuries of evolution? And how unnerving it is to know that the end might be way closer than we ever thought?

     Truth is a rare phenomenon in the human world.  We live in the age of misinformation and indoctrination.  Our daily lives are way too distorted by selfish causes and unnecessary wars.  We are constantly thrown into fear and desperation to distract us from real problems.   Thus, majority of people gave up on the never ending existence of our species.  And we have sort of accepted that humanity will destroy itself.  The question is no longer if, but when we will press our own self-destruct button?  And most people believe that we will end very soon.  It certainly feels this way in 2026.  There are way too many things on the table that could spell out the end of humanity.  It could be anything from nuclear war to a viral pandemic or failing antibiotics.  There is a great chance of asteroids hitting the Earth and causing a fallout that will destroy humanity.  There is a great possibility of A.I., that we have created ourselves, becoming too powerful for us to control and eventually destroying us as an inferior life form.  Global warming and pollution can finally catch up with us by destroying most of our food supply and rendering huge parts of Earth uninhabitable.  We are facing some real problems that require real solutions and focus to see us through the work that needs to be done. Who is going to do all this work?  While everyone is trying to chase wealth and killing themselves to win the beauty contest on social media, all our energy is directed towards trivial causes, while important work of saving our species never gets done.  In some ways it feels like it is a miracle that we are still alive. We all have the feeling of eminent doom deep inside our guts.  We all have animal intuition just like other animal species out there, and it tells us that we can’t go on like this for much longer.  We need to do something to have a future, but as we look around humanity looks lost, divided, and hopeless.  Thus, our self-destruction feels inevitable.  This feeling has led many people into some sad conclusions, which in turn caused a world wide wave of apathy, melancholy, selfishness and escapism.