[ WP ] You discover that Earth is the `` North Korea '' of the galaxy

You could not fathom the depths of the Earth Conspiracy. 
 
 The name of their game was Distraction. No one questioned their fake science of an unapproachable outer space and the doom of heat death by `` entropy''. And they manufactured even more urgent crises like global warming and oil shortages to distract them even from this - and withheld from them the fact, utterly obvious in hindsight, that their still more short-sighted wars, their debates, their petty politics: all of it was meaningless. 
 
 If those poor children could know, it would ruin them. 
 
 Knowing no other way, a vocal minority were manipulated into maintaining the status quo in the name of short-term gains, to the increasingly quiet outrage of the powerless majority, who themselves descended into a depressed servitude and acquiescence. All came to accept death as inevitable, and quabbled ineffectually for the right to an extra few thousand cycles. This `` rich'' minority was believed so untouchable, so absolute in their rule, so arrogant in their displays of authority, that not one in seven-billion Earthlings ever honestly entertained the idea that those with the true power had never truly revealed themselves. 
 
 If those poor children could know... 
 
 It was a system of Despair-by-Design, and it was ruthlessly perfect in its evil. Earthlings died in droves every cycle, of means as crass as nutrient starvation and unmitigated hemorrhaging of fuel solvent. Members of the lowest and highest known castes alike perished so astonishingly and tragically young with such utter and absolute certainty that I must warn the reader that what I say next will be difficult to hear: 
 
 That the cruel and selfish invisible Earth-masters have so tricked the inhabitants of that domain, that since the beginning of their rule, none have been able to escape their larval phase. That there has not been one Earth-adult in over eight-thousand Earth-years [ around three-million cycles ]. That they die, all of them, wriggling around in meat and sinew, ignorant, crying children. 
 
 None even aware that we exist. None realizing their true potential. All nodding in sad agreement that it is utterly inevitable to Die. All lying down in ritual silence for Death. Death, that most awesome manufactured inevitability of them all. Death, the ultimate evil. 
 
 The death of billions, for the miniscule gain of the eternal life of their unknown masters. 
 
 Earth: the galaxy's last concentration camp. The last bastion of ignorance in a universe of immortals.
