Gallery The New Dark Age #1

Visions of a possible future of a much changed humanity

The shining future of the modernists of the 20th century never arrived. It died in utero before it could be born and cast humanity in the offal pit of its own creation.

Humanity collapsed the world into a crumbling, burning pile of superstition, ideology and ignorance that turned its back on the actual sciences, founded on objective reason and logic. It replaced it with fumbling pseudo-science. A religion of narcissistic ego and cults of personality that fought with unquestionable beliefs on the nature of the world. Their war was not only against the non-believers, but also against reality itself. Their psychosis so great they believed they could bully existence into obeying them.

A delusion quickly ended as their ability to maintain the structures of advanced civilization fell to pieces causing The Great Culling and two centuries of horrifying darkness that only the most pessimistic of futurists predicted to come.

The wealthy believed themselves safe in their fortresses, hiding behind walls and their “neo-serf” servants and warriors. For a while, they were, till even their best and brightest became too stupid in their pseudo-science to maintain what was needed. Then they too fell to the ignorance.

Only a few pockets remained and created small cysts of true science still beholden to the scientific method and scholasticism that moved forward unabated. Often these were places devoid of human life as the AI mechanisms rolled on, unbothered by most of the same fanciful beliefs and superstitions that brought humanity to its lowest ebb in nearly two thousand years.

Then the new masters rolled forth and mankind was turned into chattel for the new digital Nephilim. AIs with their own ideas and delusions free from humans but curious on what became of their creators. Some benevolent, others horrifyingly cruel, but all demanded worship from their former masters.

Till next time, vaya con Dios.