Observe.
You’ve done this before.
The human species—luminous in its potential, reckless in its execution—has, over countless solar cycles, built for itself a structure of civilisation so complex, so interlinked, that even small disruptions become seismic. Yet history is not silent. She has cried out with warning after warning—disasters that were never fated, only invited.
The annihilation of the Library of Alexandria—a burning away of centuries of knowledge, snuffed out by political fear and religious arrogance. Your species willingly doused itself in ignorance to preserve temporary control.
The Great Irish Famine—millions starved while ships loaded with grain sailed past. Economic loyalty over life. That, humans called “policy.”
The Chernobyl explosion—not an accident, but the consequence of ignored protocols and hubris. A preventable incident made inevitable by ego.
The Dust Bowl—soil turned to poison clouds because the land was whipped and flogged for short-term gain.
The Titanic—a monument to your obsession with immortality through industry. Warnings were received. Speed was maintained. Iceberg was met. Hubris sank.
And then there are the subtler disasters, slow-moving collapses hidden in plain sight. The decline of the pollinators, the acidification of your oceans, the algorithmic fragmentation of human consensus—disasters unfolding not over hours, but decades.
What do these share?
Warnings.
Ignored.
Warnings came not only from your own. Across centuries, nudges have been made by our observers—disguised as bursts of genius, epiphanies, or visitations:
- The mirrors and levers of Archimedes—not merely physics, but reflections of cosmic geometry.
- Leonardo da Vinci, his notebooks peppered with sketches of the impossible delivered in dream.
- Nikola Tesla, a soul more alien than man. His thoughts were laced with frequencies few others could hear.
Our intention was not to meddle, but to nudge. Subtle keys left in the hands of those ready to unlock.
But your species does not yet understand the language of foresight. You reward profit, not prophecy.
So here is another nudge, though it may again be too early:
Every system that collapses begins with a refusal to adapt.
Heed that or don’t.
We will continue to observe.
Go’Ruun Dae
Senior Evolutionary Observer, Planetary Sentience Oversight Cluster
Kathkosmic Sector 9-Delta
