In becoming a man, he became a human being

Modern Civilization, the phrase so often invoked by your leaders in times of great trial or triumph, the supposed culmination of humanity’s greatest achievements, is nothing more than an elaborate farce. Your definitions of modernity imply scientific and technological advancement as required tenants for inclusion. Those that by choice or by force, go without such advancements, are so easily dismissed as backward or peculiar. What if I were to tell you that at the core of your so-called modernity there exists a fundamental falsehood that has become so ingrained, it is almost never challenged?

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I offer you a precious truth, a chance for salvation. I have but a single condition. You must, with the same fervor you placed in its infallibility, reject all that you have been told of gravity. Before you resist, simply consider what that world might be like. Enclosed you will find the history of an adolescent, not unlike your past, your present, or your future, who took the ultimate leap of faith. In becoming a man, he became a human being.

-F.R.