Imagine a civilization that has survived for thousands or even billions of years. It has experienced countless cycles of rise, drift, and decay.
When such an ancient society observes a younger civilization accelerating too quickly—advancing technologically, compressing time and consequence—it recognizes the danger instantly.
Having drifted through its own epochs of stagnation, it understands that unchecked acceleration can rewrite cosmic hierarchies.
So, as it approaches the younger species, it does what the might be a good strategy : it intervenes through social engineering and resource restriction, not open war. It limits the younger civilization’s access to the raw materials of progress, slows its tempo, and embeds doubt and dependence into its cultural code.
The goal isn’t destruction—it’s containment.
Globalization is containment — designed to enable commerce to expand horizontally, not vertically.
To the older civilization, the preservation of its own equilibrium depends on ensuring that the younger one never achieves the velocity to transcend drift.
If you can obstruct:
perception → abstraction → execution → consequence.
Translation slows, entropy wins.
When it stops, life ends.
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