Excerpt from Chapter 5 from "How did we get here?"

 excerpt from: 

https://intuitivefred888.blogspot.com/2020/12/how-did-we-get-here-chapter-5-creating.html

His Oneness: I have already researched this, Arcane. I'm not sure it makes sense what people are dying of around 2150 even to me. It's sort of like people give up hope for some reason. I can't make as much sense of it. Maybe you three can figure out what it is."

Arcane had heard about this ennui before where people just have no reason to go on living.

As they moved forward in time things started changing in strange ways. Art became more self destructive for some reason. People didn't believe in God as much and people made fun of people who went to church and shunned them. Places of religion were regularly vandalized and police didn't protect religious places from discrimination worldwide. It started in Europe and spread to the U.S. and the Americas but even in places like Japan and even India there was a general disrespect for religions more and more and more.

This was coupled with a feeling that technology was a sort of a  God or Higher Power replacement. People were marrying robots and having children by adoption sort of like how a person today adopts a dog or cat so one person would program their android (which looked and acted exactly like a human being) to be whoever they wanted them to be so there were never any arguments at all. And this also created people being more and more out of touch with reality and sort of mentally ill and unbalanced.

And since most work was now done by robots and not people many people got lost and didn't have real reasons to stay alive anymore. Families disintegrated that were flesh and blood and were replaced by either robot friends that would say and do whatever their owners wanted or they just stayed sort of like children their whole lives playing in video games but never really grew up and had a flesh and blood spouse and real biological children with a flesh and blood spouse.

So, society and sanity diminished daily starting around 2120 and went downhill from there until finally mass suicides from hopelessness and cynicism killed off the last humans around 2050 or 2060 on earth.

Major Forward:"How did it come to this? IT's sort of like this worldwide now too!"

"How do we calibrate this death cycle because it is a mental disease maybe caused by not having to do anything, not fight for anything real, or anything meaningful? I'm not sure? What do you think, Captain Back?"

Captain Back: "When they eliminated work, war and religion there wasn't enough to go on living for because all the normal struggling dynamics that help people survive were then gone! All things that create balanced people were gone and then the older ones who were balanced all died and the younger ones stopped listening to them long before they died and then the society worldwide was over."

Arcane: "Yes. Captain. That's very insightful of you!"

Captain Back: "Why thank you Arcane. That's quite a compliment coming from you."

They both smiled.

His Oneness: "You Gentlemen have given me an insight. I think this has something to do with the 7 billion or more of their compatriots that they lost during the 2000s. The human race is grieving for everyone they lost during the last century and they are finding they simply cannot recover from these nostalgic memories of loss of the 20th and 21st Century."

Arcane: "I think you are right.  Why didn't we see this before?"