Stumbling on a REALLY GOOD science fiction series, "Torchwood," I am now a huge fan of the writer, Davies and Lead star, Barrowman. What a great treat it would be to see my idea set on this kind of stage....(:
Armageddon Came Stealthily – a fairy tale...
“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
~George Orwell
Once upon a time in a land called Earth, a species known as hominid developed and populated the great globe.
Surviving travail and cultural crises, the societies rumbled forward – many individuals and groups striving for the betterment of mankind.There did occur apparent deviations from global empathy, but the other sectors of mankind continued to right their vector momentum and crusade toward higher goals of mass survival and opportunity to thrive as both individuals and congregations. The criteria focused upon uplifted values and ethical perspectives for both mankind and the Earth.
As the citizenry grew, New Thought in the molding of ideas acted as a placebo in calming and guiding the more highly educated and industrialized beings. With the study of this domain of knowledge, presences could choose thought patterns and people with whom to associate. This path carried them away from the hubbub of troubles and daily engrossment in procuring the needs for base physical continuation and those of remedially soothing influences on emotional drives.
Preoccupied with attainment of beliefs and systems of convictions of truth, and with confidence in this habit of mind, the inhabitants with all the privileges of free men became less aware of other activities in their realm. The
great institutions of learning had categorized knowledge, functionality, reasoning, and had even established schools of remediation for aberrant intent of cogitation.
Within this finely tuned paradigm developed a tumor-like deviation of being whose thought processes did not house the ability to experience empathy. The vast scholarly institutions held that this was a psychological impulse of will, could be corrected, and went about the business of formulating treatments to reestablish balance for the individual, and thus, society as a whole.
Insurgency began to arise within small numbers of natives who disagreed with those within the great halls of understanding and their comprehension of truth. Straying from the hallmarks of data and using primitive observation, these rebels began to formulate a new idea – one divergent from the psychological treatment vectors.This new concept began to take shape as those within society reported horrific anguish from contact with a differing strain of hominid. In these encounters, individuals found themselves mesmerized, deprived of their original self- hood, callously used, devalued while following the best and highest forms of their belief systems, having their values and purposes shaken, and then unceremoniously “left for dead.” Rarely could aid be found to salve the damaged psyches of the victims, for the true believers of the old psychology formats simply were unable to fit the data into their stable and well-acknowledged schools of belief.
Could it be that this uncustomary encounter with a
divergent strain of citizen could be more than a mutual tangency with an abnormally motivated being? What if an influential drive was not the root, but an intrinsic style of operation? How were the majority of presences to relate to this, and more to the point, how were they to protect themselves from emotional harm? These relationships proved unavoidably destructive to the well-being of individuals and filtered to society.
The insurgents pooled efforts, information, and unified contact to discover an amazing similarity with experiential reports. The strange behaviors of a group of beings whose common description could be a total absence of empathy began to form the base of understanding an event-horizon for any who remained in contact. The most honored notions of forgiveness could not hold stasis and a return to valued normality with this uncharted manner of conduct.
To remain viably humane and uphold the values of their domain, the primary citizens recognized that the exclusion of “the others” was not an option and yet, there might be no rehabilitation possible forthis new strain of presence. They would need to define a new application of learning which might offer tools to formally acknowledge actions coupled with intuitive feelings of those coming in contact with the alien co-citizenry. In addition, techniques would be required to heal the damaged persons left in the wake of such predators.
The glorious past eras of golden virtues might have faded,
but a fearless approach to handling the challenge of meshing two entirely foreign ideologies for joint survival on the globe called Earth would stand as a gateway. This ascension would bring change to the tried and true beliefs of the departed generations and perhaps a tarnished overview of life as that given by the prophets and teachers of great creeds. Today would prove an opening to a road of awareness. Knowledge, itself, is not power, but the ability to use that information and to do so with righteous intent would mark an evolving humanity as it strives to incorporate the incompatible into a new world. We, the insurgents are not the same.
And so, it begins.
