In the aftermath of the battle for supremacy, when each of the territories in outer space and those on Earth were on the verge of death, those who survived could only do so by resorting to the destruction of one another.

The destruction of one another…? 

If we are to literally translate this phrase as “cannibalism,” what a horrifying expression it must be. However, if we take a broader understanding of the words, we find that human civilization has, throughout history, offered sacrifices to nature, and as they formed settlements, repeatedly created alliances and enemies, killing and plundering one another in the process. 

When class differences and inequalities emerge within settlements, people begin exploiting the weak and underprivileged within their inner circle and families. And when warfare becomes normalized on a nationwide scale, the infantrymen on the front lines bear the brunt of the attacks. 

Toward the Anno Domini’s final years, when the citizenry began taking control of government and warfare, the scale of conflict had expanded rapidly, with casualties exploding into massive numbers. 

However, no indications were made of “mutual destruction” during such events. Rather, the victims of these circumstances were referred to as “casualties of war,” “victims of disaster,” and “refugees,” etc. — a sublimation of their true sufferings. 

And thus, those who stood atop the national organizational power structures have felt absolutely no sensitivity or awareness that their people were destroying one another. 

Furthermore, if we are to assume that the greatest issue facing governments is to overcome any crisis that threatens their existence, then to depict the sacrificing of life as a glorious act — like a loyal servant following one’s master to the grave — to portray such casualties as “those who died with honor,” “martyrs,” and “distinguished spirits of dead soldiers,” will expiate them from any associated guilt or sins. 

And that was that. 

Or was it that simple? 

Wouldn’t direct cannibalism have led to less wholesale human slaughter? 

The systems constructed by civilization have allowed people to become oblivious of the cannibalism that occurred under their watch. In fact, they created such systems that compelled people to destroy one another. Furthermore, they rampantly spread this organic disease called humans upon the Earth in the name of expanding their population. 

This is called propagation. 

From that vantage point, we can see that humans will devour and destroy themselves and engulf the Earth. 

However, people who possess intelligence will develop forms of logic that will allow them never to have to face or utter such truths. That is the history of civilization. If so, then the period from the end of the Anno Domini era to the Universal Century could be called the Century of Cannibalism. 

Human DNA has ordered us to do so. 

Ordered us? 

Is that true? 

Is that reality? 

It may not, in fact, be reality. 

But history will list those facts for us. At the end of the Anno Domini era, in an attempt to make their lives more convenient, humans began to streamline their economic activities, consolidating their manufacturing operations and making them more efficient. In response, an endemic system of values started to rise. 

But in any case, when trying to accommodate the enormity of human preferences, society takes a single-minded approach towards expanding production and consumption. As the population grows, consumption grows ever larger. Furthermore, a massively growing number of people came to believe that the economic consumption system (even if it were a conceptual or virtual one) that was spun from excessive amounts of information and delusional ideas (these were called logical speculation) was in fact controlled by the government to contain and regulate reality. 

Even if this were analogical reasoning resulting from an appropriately organic thought process and set of preferences, the overwhelming growth in the human population has resulted in a biological mob (populism) that ranks lower than simple bacteria — and thus, they devour the Earth, and lead the way towards destruction. Even so, if any region on the planet were to be plagued with starvation, the biological community’s tendency to be galvanized toward efforts to save those poor wretches in the name of humanism. And it is a peculiar characteristic of the mob never once to feel that such actions are contradictory or inconsistent. 

As members of the collective mob, humans can only judge reality by whether they achieved profit through economic efficiency or whether they had earned the label of having won or lost a war. 

And thus, that becomes the ideology of a generation, and therefore, the fruits of a governing policy. Anything else is thus unforeseen, and therefore, nonexistent. 

The decision to make the three branches of government — judiciary, executive, and legislative — into separate and independent entities appears to be one that was made with the benefit of wisdom and foresight. However, even if this system was established as law, it, in fact, did not legitimately rule over real-life operations in the real world and could not control or govern them. 

The circuits of the legislative branch were not laid down via justice, but instead, due to the political situation at the time, or perhaps via the logic of the people of an impoverished legislature, had become thick and bloated through the continuous additions of supplementary items. 

And because of that, with regard to the true effects of the law, there was no end to the steady stream of unjust criminal accusations, nor did any democratic decisions lead to justice. 

To begin with, due to the cacophony of cries coming from the consensus of the general population, which were nothing more than a common mob, whoever put that momentary axiology into words (such a person who invokes the power of the state could also be labeled a dictator or despot) would be held as just and righteous. And thus, moderate voices, or more reasonable routes towards an ideal solution, were never demonstrated nor established. 

It didn’t matter that the government’s bureaucratic institutions were of the same ilk or less and that the institutions themselves were exploiting the people. The members of such organizations were, from start to finish, always devoted to the pursuit of maintaining the wealth necessary for supporting their lifestyles for as long as they lived and their social standing. 

In so doing, the nation, which is the foundation that consequently allows this bureaucratic institution itself to thrive, will exhaust itself and perish. But the reason why no one turns their attention to this issue is that humans can only operate at a sub-bacterial level. 

To this generation, condemned as the age of cannibalism, no matter how many humans may be offered up as meat (Kuntala), because such quantifiable miseries are the result of direct actions, by imagining that those casualties are not the equal of earlier, historical instances of genocide, it is of some small comfort to them.