Even without the events of 40 years ago, I think man would still be a creature that fears the dark. He doesn't face that fear; he averts his eyes from it and acts as if he doesn't have any memories of his past. But 40 years is both a short time and yet a long time. Man's fear has withered, and even time itself tries to wither the desire to know the truth. Is it a crime to try and learn the truth? Is it a sin to search for those things which you fear? You poor souls who fear the darkness and the deep. When you suppress that fear you will be able to get close to the truth. There is but one truth. If you avert your eyes from it, you will always remain nothing more than a puppet. In the words of Schwartzwald, "Who is closest to the truth? Imagination and memory are but one thing which for diverse considerations have diverse names." My purpose in this world is knowledge, and the dissemination of it. And it is I who is to restore the fruits of my labor to the entire world. Don't you find it odd that there is only one man is this whole city who has the desire to pursue the truth? Fear. It is something vital to us puny creatures. The instant man stop fearing is the instant the species reaches a dead end, only to sink to pitiable lows, only to sit and wait apathetically for extinction. Wake up! Don't be afraid of knowledge! Foolish denizens of Paradigm City. So long as you exist together, continue to live your lives together in mass illusion, a single dragon will be born there. Yes that ancient mechanical dragon is a mirror of none other than yourselves you fools. The anxiety within you has no outlet. It has no past and no future. Each person's jealousies, their desires, their fears. Alone each may be a small part but together, they will become an enormous hole that will take shape. Humans who lose the ability to think become creatures whose existence has no value. Think, you humans who are split into two worlds, unless you want the gulf between humans to expand into oblivion, you must think!
Signed,
Schwartzwald.