To Kill Innocents

There may be something else Kyon is thinking about. When I slept that night, I dreamed that same damn dream again. It comes from that time I really met Kyon for the first time, and one that made me want to change time more. You see, the older Kyon is a massive killer, and one that is insane. He slaughtered children in the millions because he was told to. He was an officer, a major, and he organized the killing of 100,000,000 people. Children, elderly, women, and or course their husbands were all killed. Command told him to kill the people because they were Communists, and that was all there was to it really.

The dream takes place in the year 2050. It's inside a house, with crying children. Kyon walks in, and pulls out a machine pistol. All the children are rounded up in the center of the room, and are then are promptly shot. He had promised the children he would spare them, but he went back on it. I'm one of those children, and only survived because no one decided to check the bodies. I would've slowly bled to death had it not been for the arrival of a woman, who was a real Communist. Or rather, she was a Neo-Communist, who advocated the use of cybernetics to create a Communist paradise, which is what led to the Entity. However, it's interesting to note how the massacres carried out by the United States, along with Japan and the NATO because of their relation with the United States, led to massive slaughter of people that were even supposedly Communist. The radical right abused this heavily for obvious reasons.

The dream itself just replays the events, but somehow always emphasizes that Kyon did it, that Kyon killed me along with all the other children. I say killed because my individual self died that day. The Entity connected me by the time I woke up. I had to build my own individual self all over again when I was briefly away from the Entity. It was painful, for it was like growing up as a child with no parents or peers to cry to. But, I built a personality for myself, but not the one I was as a child.

Now, you may be wondering how I lived to the year 2150 in the health I am. Well, the Entity can easily extend the life of any of its parts, and does so frequently. The longer a part works, the better it's for the Entity because it extends its own lifespan. Every part is needed for the Entity to function fully. The military part of the Entity is like its muscles that clear away resistance, while the farmers are the food production and processing for the Entity, like the functions of the stomach in a human in many ways. The mind is contributed to by all of us, truly creating a collective conscience; therefore that's how it's different from the human body. However, the mind and body aren't separate entities, they are parts of the same whole. Therefore, the difference isn't as large as many like to think. But anyway, all of these parts must be preserved for frequent reproduction is inefficient for the Entity.

The Entity's communication abilities allowed its members to easily out maneuver the governments opposed to it. The only reason really the capitalists, the fascists, and the religious fundamentalists opposed it was because it would take away their power. The legitimate opposition came to it from individualists, like Anarchists. They said the Entity would wipe out the individual, and therefore rob what makes humans unique. However, they were a minority that quickly died out. In the year 2150, the Entity has every person on Earth inside of it.

This reflection I had mostly occurred while I ate breakfast, which consisted of cereal, considering I don't have time for much else. I have to fortify my own individuality with special machines that save parts of myself to release the data out into my brain once again when the Entity clears it. These machines are stored in a compartment in the apartment, where they invade my brain to restore it. Yuki gave me the machines, because the Data Integration Entity wanted me to be an individual. Why? I don't know, I just know that the Data Integration Entity is possibly what the Entity eventually evolves into, however that would beg the question of why it would in effect send two agents to do the same job because the Entity can communicate with every part of time, like the Data Integration Entity I hear.

School feels very lifeless, but it never really had a point. I already know everything and much more that I need to for this society. Learning is instantaneous because of the information transfer, something all kids dream of and all teachers dread because they would be out of a job. However, the price of this in this time is not only school feeling pointless, but everything there too. Kids don't want to admit it, but many, if not all, their social relationships come from either the Internet or experiences at school. Hell, many of their social experiences period originate from these places. I've seen where the Internet goes to in its fullest extent, and for the matter of school, since I don't need it, than the relations go too. Clubs and, later on, the SOS Brigade helped alleviate these things, but they still existed.

When I finished it up today, and I got to the SOS Brigade, I saw something else that had become lifeless. Haruhi, without Kyon present, is incredibly bored. So, she decided to leave herself. This gave me the chance to talk with the others about what happened to Kyon. They all agree that Kyon should just be left alone to think about things, so should be left alone. He actually has a good excuse for being in the hospital, and Yuki did all the homework he had. Yeah, Yuki is just so useful in these functions, and Kyon would owe her a lot if Yuki could appreciate such arrangements, which unfortunately for her, and me because it would be entertaining, can't.

After that, I headed home to discover something I didn't want to see, that I was going to have to head back now, so the Entity could absorb my memories and also erase the personality that had developed. I knew if I didn't go that they would come back to get me, like they did once. You can't escape the Entity, even if you travel through time. So, I went back, hoping they don't find out about the Nano robots I have hidden. I used the device, and went to the year 2150, where my older self will reconnect me.

I arrived, and surely enough, the Older Mikuru was there. She got out that cord, and attached it to me like I was just another computer. At that, I felt my personality slipping away. I also felt the information being shared amongst the Entity, across all of its seven billion parts. My conscience continues to slip away, but fortunately, I know what to do when I get back. I just hope that this isn't too long…

I don't understand why she thinks I don't know about the nano robots. Perhaps it's because she doesn't know where they are; therefore she doesn't have to worry about me getting rid of them. But, I really let her keep them, for if she does, she is more effective. I'm not some cruel dictator, or some totalitarian government; I am what I am, which is the sum of humanity. It's this fate, or of us becoming individuals that only see each other as tools to be used and abused. The latter fate I've seen, which is capitalism, which would destroy humanity and the rest of life with it. It's so self-destructive, and is born out of the individualist authoritarian strategy, which is to keep people separate so they may never rise up to improve their condition.

I know collectivism isn't always that great, but humanity can't keep on destroying itself. Besides, it wasn't a single person who made this choice obviously, but millions put together who started it. Yes, we may look horrific to those unknown to us, considering all the machinery and the lack of self-consciousness in each individual, but that is all right. I'm not one person; I'm seven billion mixed together, to get something entirely new. People aren't losing anything through this arrangement; they are just becoming part of a bigger whole. That's what society is all about, and what human relations are all ultimately about, becoming part of a bigger whole to benefit everyone. It's what allows us to rise above our own pointless desires.

I remember a long time ago a philosopher who opposed me quite constantly. She said she drew a lot from someone named Max Stirner, however reminded us to judge her on her own arguments, not those of an inspiration. However, most of their arguments were the same, and were based around the individual, and how said individual should deny anything, "sacred." This ranges everything from god and the state, to property and traditional family relationships. They are, "spirits," in a sense, and they all enslave the individual to something. Rather, one should only do things that benefit and/or pleasure your own self.

Others have said this too, but they have not taken it to this extreme. They also criticize capitalism heavily, because property is another thing considered, "sacred." It also requires the state, which is something they heavily oppose. Max Stirner said, for example, "The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime." Law is necessary to uphold property; therefore it's rejected along with everything else of the state. Another reason they reject property is that in the case of capitalism, most people ended up with very little property compared to the elites. They couldn't get more, because they lacked the skills and the time to get skills to ascend to higher places on the hierarchy. Therefore, all of those individuals never get to fully enjoy themselves, not even the elite because the elite are told by the system to be "self-sacrificing." They are only pursuing part of pleasure, which is materialistic pleasure, at the denial of all others. They don't truly experience their own individuality.

The area where the woman and Max Stirner differentiate is with morality, although both agree on much here too. They both agree that there is no morality and that, "natural rights," don't exist. "Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self." Max Stirner said.

This quote does sum up things mostly, but where the woman differentiates is in two areas. The first is that she claims we should try to live in isolation because others, "corrupt," our individuality heavily. We should just use each other for pleasure, something Max Stirner would've agreed with, and should isolate ourselves from others as much as possible, something Max Stirner wouldn't have agreed with probably. The other area is that she says we should utilize modern technology to help isolate ourselves. Isolation, she frequently states, is the key to keeping our individuality and keeping ourselves from becoming part of a collective. Therefore, this isolation makes it where we are truly ourselves, and not have our individuality compromised by others.

The second area she differentiates is with the emotion love. While Max Stirner says it's okay if one gets pleasure from it, i.e. ultimately just being selfish, the woman says it's ultimately impossible for it not to enslave the individual to something sacred, like the state, religion, and capitalism. This puts our person in an interesting situation, to say the least, if he or she were to choose to follow this ideology. They would probably have to lock themselves in a room with sealed doors, which only open to get stuff occasionally from some sort of system to provide things, i.e. with post-scarcity technology. This facilitates that at least the Internet exist, you could in theory perhaps get everything else delivered in return for some kind of service you provide from inside your home.

The problems with these theories do exist obviously, however they survive much more easily than other ideals, mainly because of post-scarcity technology. If everything is in infinite supply, or just such high supply that it is impossible to profit from anything, than capitalism and socialism both fall apart. Without scarcity, any economics debate, and with it political, is unnecessary. We can all have whatever we want, for what we need is in infinite supply, along with anything we could want. This means either my society, the extreme individualist society, or some other form of post-scarcity anarchism will arise, for after all, our societies have no hierarchy. Now, that's enough, we do think far too much about topics such as this because of the limitless time available now and the lack of such pressures, such as hunger.