Author’s note:
The text below is, in its own way, a test.
If it offends or irritates you, you may have the makings of a fool.
If it enrages you so much that you cannot make it to the end, then you certainly are one!
Still, all is not lost. In the Epilogue, a spark of hope remains...
Motto:
If you could see what you have prepared for your own children, your hair would turn white in an instant!
J.B.
The meeting held in the Core of Darkness was secret.
Everything was proceeding exactly as they had planned. Overturning the order of the world and driving it to the brink of catastrophe had proved easier than anyone could have imagined.
Pure Evil opened the meeting:
“Welcome, great Family of the Abyss. Our plan for the downfall of human civilisation is nearing its final stage!”
“I ask my brilliant sister, Stupidity, to analyse the situation and set out our next strategy.”
Flattered by the compliment, Stupidity blushed faintly, cleared her throat and replied:
“Hmm. Everything suggests that my age has already arrived, and is flourishing splendidly. I am creating legions of fools. I am everywhere! I know neither borders nor restraint. I swallow everything and am beginning to rule the world. I spread like a destructive, incurable virus.”
“To fools, I am invisible,” she added cheerfully, then continued:
“I enslave every kind of mind. Rich and poor, educated and ignorant, believers and atheists, old and young. I break character. I blind! I strip people of analysis, independent thought and reflection.”
“Thanks to me, fools always have a firm opinion that tolerates no contradiction.”
“They condemn and ridicule anyone who thinks differently, without a moment’s thought. They are utterly unreflective!”
“They do not weigh arguments. They act on instinct, because I have trained them in automatic, instant, thoughtless reactions.”
“I have given fools a sense of importance! They are endlessly pleased with themselves!”
“I have brought things to the point where Stupidity resembles faith. And if someone believes blindly, no logical argument can reach them.”
“I draw certain clergy into our plans, people who drip our values into the hearts of believers. Religion, its hierarchs and clergy in our service are a mighty weapon!”
“A fool always knows best! That is why I am beyond reform and cannot be stopped.”
“My name is deceptive, because, as you all know, I am extraordinarily cunning and quick-witted,” she added, without modesty.
“Paradoxically, I, Stupidity, am not stupid!” She puffed herself up even more.
“I would like to thank the whole great Family of the Abyss, and in particular:
“Lie, Ignorance, Betrayal, Demoralisation, Corruption, Falsehood, Mammon, the twin sisters Xenophobia and Homophobia, Racism, Lust, as well as Manipulation and Disinformation, together with their media, bought journalists, every sower of nonsense and the countless army of internet trolls.”
“I am also immensely grateful for the leadership of mighty Pure Evil!” she added with a fawning smile.
“Nor can we overestimate our magnificent Ego, intoxicating those people I select and whom fools then elevate to the highest offices.”
“Millions of voters, carried along by collective stupidity, will bury hated, loathsome democracy, because a mindless fool has the same vote as a Nobel Prize winner. Of course, intelligent and educated people succumb to me as well.”
“I will say more... It is becoming easier and easier for me to discourage our worst enemies: people who think, weigh things, and doubt. They become disillusioned and demobilised quickly. They doubt because doubt belongs to their reflective nature. Often, when they see that the un-re-form-a-ble fools outnumber them, they give up in resignation.”
“Meanwhile, fools encouraged by me vote for their own kind, equally foolish, or for the plants we have financed: schemers, careerists and scandal-mongers. If the fools’ votes are not enough, our people simply count the votes in the right way...”
“If fools knew the Truth and knew who the people at the summit of power really were, the people they elected or intend to elect, their hair would stand on end!”
“Before they realise it, democracy will have turned into Stupidocracy!”
“I am investing in the young as well, because they have little experience, dislike history and dismiss it. I am proud of how well I have conquered these minds so eager to rebel and contest. I am getting better at it every year.”
“With the help of our sister Hatred, and of politicians under her influence, I divide people. I bait them, inflame them, set them against one another. In keeping with the slogan: Divide et Impera! Divide and Rule!”
“Even within families people bare their claws and go for one another’s throats!”
“Let alone hostile nations.”
“Simple and effective. For centuries.”
“A fool caught red-handed shouts that the hand is not his, then without hesitation accuses his opponents of his own vile acts. Shamelessly he reverses meanings and twists facts. He despises Truth and mocks it, because it does not suit him.”
“I must boast that, through hard work, I have become a collective trait, almost a global one!”
“Today fools are proud, even boastful, of belonging to vast crowds of people like themselves, sharing the same idiotic opinions, nonsense and fraudulent conspiracy theories.”
“They see people like themselves in power, arrogant ignoramuses, drink in every word from their mouths, and even when those rulers deceive them, they quickly forget in the whirlpool of stupidity. Then they let themselves be manipulated all over again.”
“They move constantly within circles of fools, feed themselves on stupidity, and raise their children to be fools.”
“They create for us a self-propelling machine of fools. That is my greatest strength: the lightning-fast growth in the number of the stupefied!”
“I have brought us to a point where Truth, science and obvious, indisputable facts are discredited and mocked. Shamelessly replaced by lies, half-truths and nonsense.”
“Pitiful Eternal Good, with its miserable relatives and demanding principles, has no chance! Our crazed Family of the Abyss offers rules that are more attractive and, importantly, easier.”
“Against Love, we set Carnal Lust and Hatred.”
“Against Kindness, Hostility.”
“Against Justice, Dishonesty.”
“Against Patriotism, Nationalism.”
“And against Tolerance, Xenophobia and Homophobia.”
“We ask very little.”
“That is why the world will soon be ours!”
“The internet and modern communication, easy access to mass media controlled by us, and social media worshipped by the younger generation all make my splendid fools feel powerful and effective. They can multiply and spread any nonsense in an instant.”
“I give them simple methods for solving difficult problems. So what if the methods are false? Fools do not see it, because they either cannot think logically or lack the knowledge required!”
“At the same time, our carefully selected people at the top of power, often narcissistic psychopaths and ignoramuses with monstrous egos, advance our work.”
“They use their parties, organisations and controlled social movements, hypocritically giving them noble names that contradict what they actually do. Cynically they proclaim lofty slogans they never intend to honour, slogans that fools swallow whole.”
“I keep up with the latest trends! Scientists and researchers of the human psyche work for me.”
“I use artificial intelligence to stupefy people. It helps me. It reduces thinking and steals people’s jobs. The more artificial intelligence there is, the less human intelligence remains! Billions are poured into it because investors, blinded by our sisters Mammon and Greed, want to profit.”
“To their own ruin, and the ruin of the world!”
“Ha, ha, ha...” Stupidity laughed mockingly.
“I am increasing the hold of the internet and smartphones over our enemies, people inclined to reflection, thinking and doubt. More and more, they enjoy scrolling through our content. From there it is only one step to taking over their minds.”
“The silent mass of indifferent people also works for us without realising it. They see no farther than the ends of their own noses. They do not get involved, they do not vote, they simply do not care! They make our work easier. They are the ones who will accelerate the destruction.”
“I must also mention the effective assistance of our comrade Nationalism.”
“Did you know that we even use sport, whose highest authorities have been corrupted by our efficient Greed? We recruit hooligans and turn them into brutal squads that are easy to control. Testosterone-packed thugs will happily and without restraint beat our enemies. First dark-skinned people and immigrants, then fellow citizens who think differently.”
“Every intoxicant is also in our service: booze and drugs. Soon the streets will be full of staggering drunks and doped-up human zombies.”
“We have already seized power in several major states, and we have our people in the world’s most important organisations. We are ready to move to the next stage of the plan.”
“To the Stage of Terror.”
“The time of total, deadly war by fools against those who think differently.”
“Our cunning Hatred has already sown its seeds. Cruel processes are blossoming, and the brown ideologies known from history are returning. Humanity has plenty of bestial models to draw upon.”
“Gradually, quietly, we erase and distort history. Manipulators spread monstrous lies, claiming, for example, that the Holocaust never happened, that gas chambers and crematoria were inventions.”
“Sometimes even I am astonished by my own power, and by the fact that anyone can believe such nonsense!” Stupidity marvelled.
“The age of terror is coming again!” she added with satisfaction.
“Through world rulers under my control, we are intensifying the wave of war, genocide and depopulation.”
“Even the armies of a nation that suffered extermination and genocide more painfully than most are mercilessly killing enormous numbers of innocent people.”
“The world watches and looks away. It has happened before in history, though the work was not completed then...”
“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death. Ha! I never thought I would quote the Bible, but that sentence captures what is coming, and my victory, rather well,” Stupidity boasted.
“We will continue until the final Armageddon, the end of this idiotic, warped civilisation rotten to the marrow. The Horsemen of the Apocalypse are waiting for my signal. I hope you can forgive yet another biblical reference,” Stupidity sneered.
“The proof of my genius is that humanity was not satisfied with enough weapons to destroy itself once. It produced enough to annihilate itself a dozen times over,” Stupidity said, intoxicated.
“Civilisation will be destroyed by the hands of fools. The maker shall perish by his own machine!”
“Instead of fighting poverty, hunger and disease, building hospitals and schools, investing in science and knowledge and improving the quality of life, instead of creating paradise on Earth, fools spent trillions on weapons that will ultimately destroy them.”
“Unimaginable. And how magnificent!” she exulted, radiant.
“I have already begun working to ensure that nuclear weapons are used. Fools did not build such an arsenal merely to let it go to waste! All it takes is one old fool at the summit of power in some major state, one finger on the nuclear button.”
“Here is my vision:
“Suddenly, when no one suspects a thing, in the midst of a signed and proclaimed peace, after the assassination of an important figure, history will once again complete its circle and the final great, bloody war will erupt. The Earth will shake to its foundations and burn. Seas and oceans will drown whole countries and continents. Billions will die, and the few survivors will envy the dead.”
“This foolish, degenerate, twisted civilisation must be ground to dust!” Stupidity screamed at last, beside herself with excitement.
“My dear sister, bottomless Stupidity, thank you for the analysis and for such a splendid vision.” Pure Evil bared its teeth in a cruel smile.
“Thanks to fools, the future will belong to us!” it hissed through bloody fangs.
“Ha, ha, ha, ha,” it cackled at the end.
“The world will die surprised.”
“With its mouth hanging open in disbelief!”
Epilogue:
At the Sources of Light, a meeting was under way under the leadership of Eternal Good, which opened with these words:
“We are horrified by what is happening to people! We are losing the battle for their hearts and minds.”
“Pure Evil, supported by Stupidity and the terrible Family of the Abyss, is triumphing!”
“That is why Wisdom and Truth have devised a final rescue plan, which they will now present. The survival of humanity depends on it.”
“I thank Eternal Good for calling this meeting, because time itself is running out,” Wisdom began.
“We can fight all-encompassing Stupidity by sending our sister Reflection among the legions of fools. She will make them think.”
“To open their eyes and stand in Truth, they must break away from the circle of fools that feeds itself on lies, nonsense and absurdities. They must also isolate themselves from the manipulation dripped into their minds by media and politicians in the service of Pure Evil.”
“We are awakening the last bastions of honest politicians, steadfast clergy, independent scientists, reliable journalists and free media, writers committed to spreading truth, enlightened artists and creators, and all People of Good Will.”
“They will spread the idea of how one can free oneself from the claws of Stupidity.”
“As I said, for independent thought to return, a fool must isolate himself from his own environment and from the media that drip stupidity and nonsense into his head.”
“He must stop staring hypnotically at television, computer and smartphone screens.”
“He should return in his thoughts to the days of his youth.”
“Then he will remember the old moments when he discovered the world and thought for himself.”
“The moments when, as an angry young person, he rebelled and challenged the order of things, when his mind would not submit to manipulation.”
“Such repeated meditation is the only way to unblock the fool’s mind.”
“The fool himself must see that he allowed himself to be made a fool, that he was constantly misled, deceived, used and manipulated.”
“Then, when independent judgement returns, People of Good Will will begin to explain and persuade: by deeds and by words it is easy to recognise who follows Eternal Good, and who is a fraud and a swindler in the service of Pure Evil.”
“After all, evil, stupidity, boorishness, aggression and lies can be seen with the naked eye!” Truth added.
“They can be heard plainly in the mouths of its fanatics.”
“All one has to do is awaken reflection and independent thought in oneself!”
“I believe it can succeed, because deep in his soul, man is good...” Wisdom concluded.
Eternal Good fell into deep thought.
In its infinite Wisdom, it knew what an extraordinarily difficult and grave task lay before it.
The mission of saving humanity from annihilation!
“Is it realistic? Will fools begin to think, open their eyes, allow themselves to be persuaded?”
It wondered: “Could it be that even here, in our own home, at the Source of Light, Stupidity has already begun to slip in, slowly, cunningly, almost imperceptibly?”
Postscript:
Think! Could this, after all, be about YOU???
Author’s final comment:
Perhaps I am a fool myself, naively believing that this text will change anything...