Chapter Seven: The Remnants of Philosophy

Into the future. The year is 3X98 CE.

She was watching the flying vehicles with a certain boredom that you only feel when watching a film that are full of esoteric dialogues, which cannot be understood simply without the prior knowledge of a certain academic discipline, and in order to properly process what is really happening in the potrayal being made by the actors, as perceived by the audience. 

Her name is Olivia Burden, a devoted academic, and she is fascinated with the disciplinary pursuit of history. Part of her interests include the philosophy and sociology of films, and for years now, after the successful viva voce of her dissertation, she was pursuing the study of the films of the past and how it relates to the futuristic development of the New World of America. Primarily owing to the nature of her job, she has seen movies depicting crippling diseases, chronic diseases that has been the cause of the many sufferings, that eventually end in a tragic conclusion. For her, as much as the scenes are moving, this situation is grossly unfair for Americans to be living in the "slavery" era where Genesis Technology was not yet being developed "to motivate the freedom" for the pursuit of happiness of all persons.

She has seen dark movies about women, and the vivid depiction of black slavery that haunted the former society of the United States of America to the core. Although these issues have been completely obliterated in the collective reasoning about the past, she shares the same view of the New World of America in the overcoming of the odds that has redeemed the weaknesses made by the American framers of the Constitution, and that the equality and the pursuit of destiny enshrined in the Declaration of Independence has been fulfilled in this prophecy that they are now living in.

However, her academic pursuits has inconveniently led her to the question on understanding the experiences of what pain and suffering were like, back in those days. How was it possible to have lived in an imperfect world? Was there a benefit to the pain associated with succumbing to diseases like cancer and serious illnesses that plagued society for so long?

The future civilization has changed a lot ever since the full implementation of Genesis Technology; and while the world transitioned gradually, the establishment has hidden the knowledge of philosophy from the population in a very secretive operation, in a manner that is both slowly and methodically. They knew for a fact that philosophical interests will ignite a certain form of awareness that may tilt the status quo, and the only way to hinder opposition from the regime's vested interests was to subdue books that will give rise to radical ideas with all its inherent and practical significance.

As a curious learner, Olivia wanted to understand all perspectives to life, especially those related to the past, and her sociological inquiry pertaining to the former experiences to become the spotlight of the human condition as it is perceived today seems to be very far away to be fully grasped in the current era, and simply impossible to be felt again.

She was trying to shed light as to the feelings of torment and useless suffering, and how is it possible that it did not survive into the present state. The question simply presented itself as life becomes scrutinized by learning. How could society function if emotions were not outlawed as the unnecessary burdens of the situations requiring the feeling of drastic desperation?

In her opinion, there is no humanity existing anymore, but a complete reliance subjected merely to the conditions of existence that is presently prevailing. It was her worry that another form of slavery was already happening, and nobody can possibly seem to notice.

The conditions of existence and the human condition are somehow similar, but becomes very flawed by means of comparison. It was held ago by the propaganda of the government that in order to hinder desperation by wanting to prevent the feelings of emotion is the ultimate realization of the human condition, which then completes the positive value associated with the finite consequences of existing.

Philosophy is not tied to the inquiry of the human self anymore, and in understanding his inner desire for the person's pursuit of his being, because "it is now contrary to the ultimate destiny of equality and the pursuit of happiness as prophesied by the Declaration of Independence."

Olivia knew something is being hidden within the books and the academe. Something more sinister was waiting to be unearthed from the piles of selfishly written rhetoric. It was her belief that the films were telling her clues from the past which needed decoding, and this nagging feeling from her natural curiosity is refusing to leave her. She was determined to go on and find out the truth, no matter how long or how far the endeavor will take her.

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