Note: I have couched this piece in FICTION, which is a convenient way to pinpoint hidden trends...
While the cathedral of Notre Dame burned and grabbed headlines all over
the
world, a little noticed development took place along the
Texas-Mexico border in a town called Twin. A reporter for the Twin
Clarion wrote the following:
"In a heavily guarded Twin facility belonging to Two Border Oil, Inc., a
massive leak of information occurred. Letters, emails, memos, and
studies made their way 'out the door'. These documents, taken together,
spell out an unmistakable series of developments
in the energy sector: new cutting edge forms of energy have been
successfully tested and confirmed. A Border Oil executive (name blacked
out) stated, in a memo to his seniors: 'It now appears certain that the
age of energy decentralization is upon us. Within
the next several years, we will be able to produce small highly
efficient "energy packs" at shockingly low prices. These packs will
enable any person anywhere on the planet to power personal devices,
without the use of oil. Obviously, we must do everything
possible to prevent this revolution. The technological breakthrough
would necessitate the reorganization of society along lines of extreme
decentralization. The population of the planet is not prepared.
Traditional political and economic structures would
collapse. We would see the emergence of a new type of system---not
capitalistic as we know it, and not socialistic. The individual would
be empowered at a level never before seen. The collective energy grid
would be superseded and made obsolete within a
decade. The mechanics (physics) of this breakthrough are not totally
understood---but it is clear that the tests of the technology are
overwhelmingly positive and repeatable. At one point it was thought
that a community of companies could control all the
relevant patents, but this promise has faded. The engineering for the
"new energy" is rather simple. Its method would quickly sweep across
the planet and be absorbed. Our only alternative is to continue to keep
the whole development secret. I enclose expert
testimonies and test results for your inspection, so you can confirm
what I and others already know. Our research has brought us across a
bridge into a future we cannot control, predict, or fully fathom...'"
The Twin reporter continued: "A high-ranking scientist who works at a
European energy company replied: 'I'm quite sure I understand the
breakthrough you're referring to, and I can say that this is not the
only one of great magnitude in the energy field. There
are several others---each one different, and each one offering the same
promise: the availability of small and cheap energy devices that would
make The Individual self-sufficient. We are at a highly dangerous
crossroad...'"
The Twin reporter: "A quite different memo has surfaced...this one
appears to have been written by a senior public relations executive for a
company located in England---'Our efforts to squelch knowledge of
several key energy breakthroughs have foundered on
the rocks. We have somehow been outflanked. We set up a number of
false fronts, inventors of technology who were actually on our payroll,
who were destined to fail, who were intentional fakers. We thought
that, in this way, we could discredit the whole
alternative energy movement, but this has not been the case. Instead,
interest in new forms of energy has increased. There is now a popular
sentiment in favor of true decentralized energy platforms. We are
retrenching our position. It's possible we can
predict new energy breakthroughs, but couch these estimates in terms of
huge production costs, thereby making it seem that actual practical
usage is decades away. We have analysts and reporters primed in this
direction, should we choose it as our next step"
A professor at Harvard offers his analysis in the leaked documents:
"Self-sufficient energy usage (SSEU) will take focus away from national
governments. Imagine these governments flailing at each other in their
usual manner, but in the absence of interest
and concern on the part of the citizenry. Politicians would look like
sheer buffoons. It would be on the order of doctors insisting on
expensive and quite risky surgery, when ingesting a small harmless food
pill would cure the condition and thus make the
surgery appear to be an absolutely insane solution for a problem that
no longer exists..."
An opinion is put forward by a leader in the American Socialist Party:
"Even if these estimates of SSEU are correct, the consequences would
contradict and destroy every principle we have attempted to ingrain in
the population. Untold numbers of individuals
who can own and regulate their own energy will obviate the need for
collective answers and programs...Even though SSEU will improve the
condition of the environment, the very notion of individuals in charge
of their own separate destinies will wreak psychological
havoc in ways we as yet barely understand. We must stand for The
Group, no matter what lurks over the horizon..."
All in all, the titanic leaks coming out of Big Oil sketch a campaign
that is desperately trying to turn back the clock, framing
civilization's problems as they may have existed 50 years ago, thus
requiring old centralized and authoritarian responses that no
longer apply. It's really a form of time travel---an attempt to force
everyone to move backwards and be what they once were, not what they are
now, or could be tomorrow...
The Twin reporter concludes: "I have in my possession a memo written by a
research physicist at a Midwestern US oil company. It suggests the
most radical position of all in this deeply shocking situation. The
physicist states: 'It appears that a variety of
approaches produce technologies that run cars, buses, trains, planes,
localized electrical grids, and home energy devices---for pennies. In
other words, a great deal depends on the mindset of the isolated lone
inventor. He can, as it were, come up with a
description of a tiny particle no one has ever heard of, develop
mathematics that describes its motion and other characteristics, and
eventually discover (or invent) energy technology that actually works in
a revolutionary manner. All these different scientific
approaches seem to contradict each other, but clearly they don't. In
some way, they are complementary. How is this possible? We need to
rethink our fundamentals about consciousness itself...'"
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