One such skeptic, [insert name here], equated it to the most fascistic ideas of human history; the 'Devil's Panopticon' became a world wide best selling case against Utopia. Even then, the inevitability remained paramount.
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It had been a rather normal week for [name]. Blue skies, sun shine, light breeze, unchanged for this time of year. Spring, Summer and Fall seemed to blend together in this part of the world. Another morning approached quickly, as time seems to bring about the same iterations of the same phenomena in a strange loop. It never had been clear to him what the purpose to this whole thing was. Life. The endeavor to exist, so as to keep existing even after one no longer... exists. He felt, often, that these thoughts occupied his mind alone; as the majority of people rejoiced in the possibility of eternal life after corporeal death.
The sink ran for much too long again. The mirror, much too... observant. His eyes watered slightly. Why such dread? Why such fear? Where is this anxiety sourced, if not from within?
They
called him Thomas,
the Moore family's fifth and final child. Christine
and Wendell
Moore
moved to New York City to enroll Thomas in the Academy
of Universal Studies--for
the world's most gifted children. As parents, they did the best they
could; keeping up with such a genius mind proved no easy task. Where
did one ever find a three year old already manipulating conversations
like a young Socrates, the playground his own Athenian street corner,
other children, most of them geniuses as well gathered around in awe
of his quickness of tongue and cleverness? Thomas, the name he
preferred to go by after several people tried to call him Tom, or
Tommy, is an extraordinary mind like the world has never seen. It is
no surprise though, the Moore family's ancestral line, while not
known for a consistent tree of genius minds, claims the first and
most important genius of the New Era.
Gabriel
Moore,
the inventor of the Utopian system that now orbits the Earth, grew up
in the same environment as Thomas is presently. Thomas only knows of
Gabriel Moore through a kind of mythology, one that even the present
Moore family relies on for information; for after 3000 years of human
and technological evolution, stories often take any number of
sensational shapes.
Thomas's
four siblings are not particularly remarkable in comparison to their
youngest brother. Sophia,
his eldest sister, is twelve years old, attends a normal school, and
is passing her English and language, history and computer technology
studies with above average, but nonetheless average grades. Thomas
has three brothers as well; Nicholas
is eight, and Jack
and Joshua,
the twins, are six. He gets along with them on a marginal basis,
going through the expected sibling relationships with relative
disinterest since his mind is usually engaged in the most difficult
and often fantastical academic and technological complexities.
Gabriel
Moore's legacy lives on in certain corners of recorded history,
however, any information of real detail and intrigue has been kept
hidden, locked within the depths of Utopia itself. Gabriel Moore, the
father of Utopia, was given the assignment by what was once known as
the United States and its hegemonic government to consider the idea
of the afterlife on scientific terms. More specifically, Moore’s
genius was to implement the latest in Biology and its many subset
disciplines: neurobiology and artificial intelligence to name a few.
But where Moore’s research really took hold was a discipline that
the major schools of thought in the world had least expected and
ostracized more often than not; namely, theoretical metaphysics, and
the implications of human consciousness.
At the
time, around 2012, the latest achievements in the exploration of the
human mind were clumped in and around the brain itself, as the
physical mechanism that it is. In fact, most major researchers were
convinced that, while there remained a vastly uncovered portion of
the mysterious human brain, enough information had been collected
that research could be reallocated back into the development of
physiological sustainability and biogenetic engineering to strangle
the many out of control diseases that enveloped the planet.
Gabriel
Moore’s research on Utopia was kept hidden, and with the exception
of a few minor leaks onto the net regarding his “assignment,” his
metaphysics were published for criticism under the guise of merely
academic theory. Indeed, many of the world’s elite thinkers were
confused as to why Moore, the quintessential genius of the last
century, was wasting his time on such flimsy conceptual frameworks;
dialectics, philosophy of language and the “attempted
materialization of the soul” as his colleague Richard
Chovsky
famously published. Little did they know Moore’s research teetered
on the edge of bringing to life the Mind of the human being, the
collective Mind of all of conscious life, and what is presently
called Utopia: God itself rendered into tangible techno-being.
