Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-24881951-20150527231544

I still remember the day the egos were broken. It could hardly have come at a more opportune time, as the world was on the brink of great disaster with an extreme increase war, poverty, disease, and global warming. Then one day, all within an instant, all mental and emotional barriers of the self were simply crossed throughout all humanity: Everybody everywhere all, just completely suddenly, understood each other's points of view exactly and sensed everything others sensed. All the rich felt the struggles of the poor; all the torturers, the pain of their victims; all warriors, the equal humanity of their enemies. We did not know how such a miracle happened, nor did we really care; all that mattered to us was the resulting heaven on Earth: As soon as we all understood each other's struggles, we all came together... and made the world a better place than it had ever been. Everyone treated each other with equal respect and everyone gave up what they did not need to those whose situations were more desperate. We all stopped wasting our money on war to allow for equally spread economic prosperity throughout the world. We also understood the feelings of the few to stop degrading our planet and made our full effort to do so as best we could, at the expense of a few bucks from the big manufacturers oil companies; science was also dedicated to curing the widespread sickness of the world, which with newfound concern for the populace under leading institutions, now came strikingly quickly.

Within a few decades, all the world could say they were satisfied with the conditions of their lives. Not so much as the smallest argument occurred between anyone, for we already understood each other's viewpoints and were immediately able to work towards a solution. Many people also lived quite austere lives with little opulence as we learned from cultures of simplistic underdeveloped harmony, still only focusing on medicinal advancements regarding technology. Government became obsolete, for we all simply governed ourselves and understood our own moral laws in interacting with others. Also nearly abandoned was the system of education, as we all immediately could learn everything from each other. Furthermore, since we were all essentially telepaths, language and oral or written communication itself also was not needed, though some still had the desire to practice such for the sake of cultural conservation. Life still contained minor struggles, mainly in just taking some time to resolve some more difficult discrepancies, but overall, there was finally joy to the world. The egoic selves were all gone, and we were united: just us (as a whole) and all of our experiences shared well with each other.

Then came the aliens. Nobody had expected them, as astronomy had not been a priority in the midst of world peace, so we were caught completely off guard. From the monotony yet relative ecstasy of the past years, we were greatly upset by their huge spaceships looming over us. As soon as the first one touched down and the extraterrestrial being stepped out, without even listening to his words we stormed the ship and bludgeoned all the beings we could. However, they wisely came prepared, with weapons of higher technology than anything we had had before we stopped caring for high-tech defense. Such rage towards truly only originated from the few who within themselves turned out to still possess some of the human greed and impetuous violence that had defined man's historical problems for countless ages before the peace. Now, however, we are all on their list to slaughtered, for little did we know that they were actually the ones who had broken our egos, and they were only coming to reveal themselves but now, because of our continued violence, have determined us unworthy as a species. Guess after all there really is no changing human nature. 