After the largest privacy breach and data leak since the birth of the Internet, the public was truly ready to embrace social change. What we were seeing for a long time prior was an innate desire for a connection to others and to a higher purpose that had been lost in Western civilization.

The establishment of the Global Council of Social Cohesion (GCSC) in 2050 saw the way in which Governments across the globe changed their means of operating. I’ve read many articles in archives and watched many documentaries of what seemed like simpler times in the 1900s and early 2000s. Each piece of history captured a consistent theme and discussion, revolutions within each generation which all surrounded different issues, but shared one common theme, oppression on the freedom to truly live as a human being on this planet.

It sounds morbid but I recall something my father used to say when watching political television shows; ‘we’ll have to wait for these bastards to die before anything changes, and it won’t be in my lifetime’. Sadly he was accurate on two accounts, one that it did not occur in his lifetime, and two that it was not until an entire generation of politicians did die that things changed, and I am confident in saying this was for the better.

Education on issues that were important to people such as climate change, animal cruelty, alcohol, and tobacco smoking as well as the use of illicit substances took front and center stage in 2020. Traditional education models were abandoned somewhat at the beginning of 2020 and studying subjects such as history and the like were no longer compulsory. The shift from looking at hindsight to foresight in significant decision-making had finally been reached, and this was long before the establishment of the GCSC. The establishment of the council one could say was that of an evolutionary process, in that at a point in time, the right people happened to be in the right room at the right time, it was destined to be.

Those deeply connected to the spiritual realm spoke many years ago of what we’ve achieved here in 2099 as being the result of a mass awakening of global consciousness, a return to a utopian state of living if you will. It has been suggested that where we are right now is where we originally came from, but profit over people and what are now classified as illnesses, power, and greed, have almost ceased to exist in our cities. The discussions that led to power and greed being included in the Diagnostic Manual of Psychological Disorders (DMPD) was one that went on for a decade or more, and sadly lives were lost in the process, but it was the loss of an entire generation of young people that gave the decision to imprison those who possessed excessive power and greed traits the weight it needed to be passed by the GCSC, which, serves as the global governing decision-making panel for the evolution of the human race.

Governments as we once knew them are no more.

I should clarify that it was not a loss of life of these young people, but how the Internet of Things was proven to alter the course of their cognitive development and physiology. This essentially led to the formation of what have been termed ‘empty vessels’ once the Internet was shut down to the public after the overconsumption of content was deemed unnecessary by the GCSC.

Another win for our way of living over the past 70 years has been the 100% use of the available weather elements on Earth; wind, fire, water and the Earth itself. Establishing renewable power stations that utilize these elements fully in carefully selected locations across the globe has been paramount in keeping towns and cities in their existing locations operating with minimal disruption.

One of the guiding principles following the establishment of the GCSC was to create a world in which people were effectively free to do as they wished with their lives, providing they were not harming another living creature physically, emotionally, spiritually or psychologically. When those diagnosed with power and greed were imprisoned for their wrongdoings, there was a noticeable decrease in unfavorable human behaviors and a corresponding increase in that which was considered favorable by the GCSC.

I can say that as the resident architect on the GCSC who prior to being an architect, spent the better part of my working life as a psychiatrist specializing in human and societal behavior patterns, my greatest career achievement has been the teaching of what we term as the basics in human existence.

Kindness, compassion, sharing, love, eating foods that are available with the seasons, the ability to capture water from the sky, free of charge, how to light a fire and cook a meal with little to no guidance aside from the learning that comes with knowledge passed down from generations.

My retirement from the GCSC comes with it a great sadness, yet at the same time, a feeling of contentment and achievement in that when I look outside the window of my abode in Sydney, Australia by the magnificent harbor (the terms house/dwelling etc. were abandoned in 2055), I see in front of me a society working in harmony with not just each other as the individuals, but with the planet in which we have the privilege, not the right to exist on.

I see in action a true appreciation for how important living a whole and present life is in the way in which everyone and everything moves in sync with each other as if being composed by the most skilled of symphony orchestra composers.

What I see every day when I step outside is something I recall reading in my younger years in all of the great novels and pieces of writing of that time, true peace on Earth.