What do you enjoy most about writing?
Writing is quite cathartic. Why do I say this?
Because writing gives me pause. That’s when I take the time to reflect within about the causality of life and what makes us humans tick and more than this, what makes us as societies so to speak, tock.
Allow me to elaborate.
In Isaac Asimov’s Foundation, there is a passage whereby Hari Seldon, the psychohistorian who defies an Empire to save Humanity from its Demise, is questioned by the Imperial Inquisition. His accuser is patently trying to picture him as a traitor, an instigator of the Empire’s decline and fall.
The prosecutor claims that Hari has orchestrated a crisis, conjuring one from nothing, for the purpose of shaking the confidence of the public in the Imperium. This is a strong accusation so what does Hari do?
He pushes back. He does so with all his wit. The man is unstoppable.
The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity—a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Among the arguments he brings forth, one catches the eye, namely the damming of curiosity.
And that is exactly what launched me on a trajectory, a vector of self-reflection aimed at determining the causes of our societal decay.
Because, ladies and gentlemen, make no mistake. We are a society in full decay, well on our way to the bottom. We are dying, both from a moral perspective as well as literally. And it’s not just the damming of curiosity that put us on this path to the bottom.
Although It is one of the chief reasons why we are going down.
For you see, all declines and falls can be traced to a damming of curiosity. All of them. When a society decides to rein in innovation, next step is that its knowledge becomes dogmatic. And what is dogma if not a set of old values set in stone that cannot be challenged on pain of death.
And our society is dogmatic to the bone, ladies and gentlemen. More and more we are being asked to accept things that contradict the essence of progress, just because the science is in. What science?! We are being told that laws must harden, and liberties must be stripped away from the body politic, which by the way is undergoing a reorganization in the opposite direction of democratization.
We are now being asked, nay, being told to shush it.
We are being dispossessed of a number of our fundamental rights because the elites, the higher ups know better.
Our society is not only damming curiosity but also democracy. Accessing political office based on merit is being replaced by money. Laws are being put in place shaping our world via re-education, brainwashing, and mass media propaganda.
We are now at the ebb of the last age of reason. I figure a counteraction is sure to follow in the opposite direction and with the most brutal effects. It is Newton’s Third Law of Motion.
So, yeah, this is what I enjoy about writing. This stream of consciousness that makes me evaluate my thoughts while I take control of their reins, as if they were a team of wild horses running free while being driven by a purposeful driver.
There are people who believe an oral tradition is the best way to maintain a healthy mind. I beg to differ. Writing is the only way we can move forward as a species. Oral communication of knowledge has doomed peoples to oblivion. Nowadays, we ridicule and scorn superstition because we cannot remember the reasons behind most of it. Writing things down makes us responsible for our thoughts not only to our peers, but also to far-removed generations. Writing is responsible. Committing things to memory is not.
Götterdämmerung 