Paradox of Progress Unfolding 1

The year is 2340. “Mom,” says Arthur Flintstock’s son Jack, “we don’t have sports in school any more because there’s no more room for it. Their using the room for classes. I can’t even get into the pool any more because of so many kids.” Arthur is preparing to depart from home on a historic adventure that could change the coarse of humanity. He has a wife and four children who are all living under extreme pressure of stress and anxiety. An obvious condition of overpopulation is facing all the people on planet Earth. It is approaching a squeezing stage with no relief. Arthur has decided to form an alliance of people to solve the problem of overpopulation that has been progressively plaguing the world uncontrollably for over a century. Prior to two thousand A.D., overpopulated areas of the world like Asia, India, Africa etc. were a creeping threat to the world especially when that problem began spreading throughout Europe and the Americas. That condition remained somewhat contained in the twentieth century because of natural disasters including earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, disease, famine and wars. Time passed later in that century and technology began to surge, new inventions flooded the market so fast mankind suffered complex sociological and industrial growing pains in adapting to rapid change. Shortly after that, around the turn of the century, the people of the world began to manage their growth better and became more competitive for gaining life’s needs. Wars began to progressively diminish somewhat and food production increased through world competition and cooperation. The following decades and centuries passed and mankind achieved what seemed like an unfolding of wonderful and rewarding accomplishments. Through new technological innovations, man has conquered the earthquake and tornado problems by sending electro static gamma ray reducers into magnetic polarizers, thereby calming radical molecular tendencies. Through world coops, man has also equalized and controlled the water supply and flooding by utilizing industrial energies through giant resignators vibrating atmospheric pressure in such a way that water is literally turned off and on to meet the peoples demands. More water and food has become available with a robustly expanding society. The worlds deserts and open lands have filled in with buildings and people. More people have been eating, working, having children and there has been funds for health research and use which has almost eliminated physical disease. The control of empires, as a result of wars, is no longer accepted in resolving disputes of power. Power is no longer perceived as a belief where mankind must be coerced or controlled by self centered leaders who pose an omnipotent threat to others. Money and credit is still used daily, but has been applied more resourcefully for the purpose of educating people on how to promote progress without hiring overpowering and radical leadership. That power is fairly contained at this time. The people of the world have seen the results of sharing and agree that sharing is a power that has brought more rewards of progress to everyone. That’s the positive view. There is also another side to this phenomenon. While everyone is enjoying the fruit of the future in all aspects, those aspects are becoming unbearable in the sense there is simply too much of everything. There are no longer a few billion people, but has far surpassed that figure. There are no longer endless plains of real estate to expand and build on. Escaping to a desolate retreat is a commodity of past centuries. Burying and cremating the dead is now becoming a square footage problem. Farms no longer exist on flat land. That land has been filled in with housing, business and industry. All farms are now maintained in virticle high rise open buildings with sunlight control design. Now people are beginning view their expanding progress at the present as setting the pace for defeat in time. They are not quite clear on what reality they must face. People are cooperative with one another because they know if they don’t, they may have to experience a general panic that will disturb their present way of life. Arthur’s wife disagrees with his departure. She thinks something bad might happen to him and he may never come back. His children are too young to hypothesize. They just don’t want him to go. Arthur knows something terrible could happen to all of them if he does nothing.