Reply #171: Take heart, "They" will eventually fail...

[The Doctor.]

(though I'm not so sure which 'they' you may be referring to.)

Here is why;

There are only two possible ultimate outcomes for the Human Race;

1) Oblivion

2) Transcendence

It does not matter how long it takes. It does not matter what takes place between 'now' and 'then'. Either we perish forever as a race, or we become divine.

Either way; they fail.

The human spirit thrives on knowledge, exploration, and growth. Each year we add more and more to our ever-expanding base of knowledge. We reach out to answer questions, find more questions, and seek more answers... and we get those answers often enough to show progress.
Even now we are on the verge of taking hold of the course of our own evolution. We may be a mere hundred years away from unlocking full human potential and making strides we can't even imagine now.
But it doesn't matter if it is a hundred years, or a thousand, or even a million. Provided we do not go extinct, we will eventually achieve a transcendent human philosophy along with our technological and physical achievements.
There are and have been signs of this philosophy throughout history, and we have seen that those in power are terrified of it, for it would eventually mean equality and prosperity for all... which is the very means to destroy war, suppression, and a litany of evils inflicted on the powerless by the powerful and insecure.
But at some point in human evolution - for as we know, each new generation is more intelligent than the last - this philosophy will be come so self-evident to all the masses of the world, that it will sweep the suppressors out of power forever and begin a new human journey to transcendence.

Thus we become divine.

Whether it takes a hundred years, a thousand years, or even a million years... it will happen.

The only way to keep it from happening is to eradicate the human race entirely.

But in the meanwhile, the forces of insecurity and suppression represented by the self-affirmed 'elite', will merely attempt to stave this off by depriving humanity of the ability to learn, grow, prosper, and most importantly, communicate.

Such tactics, no matter how sophisticated they become, cannot suppress humanity as a whole without destroying it.

Such methods may work for a hundred years, maybe a thousand, possibly a million. But unless they wipe us, and themselves, out of existence, those methods will eventually fail.

Humans will continue to become more intelligent.
We will continue to develop new ideas and philosophies.
As people realize more and more how they are being controlled, they will devise new ways to break that control.

The suppressors may wipe out vast knowledge, and vast populations, but we will start over… from scratch if necessary.

As resources dwindle, and technology improves, it will become more and more difficult to maintain control. If we branch out to new worlds, it will become nearly impossible.

If they have their way, humanity will stagnate and perish.

I doubt they’ll have their way forever… that’s too long for anything to work. Eventually either their system of control breaks and humanity achieves transcendence…

Or we all perish… and take them with us into oblivion.

So I do not worry for the future of the race, the oppressors will eventually fail…

I worry instead for all the suffering that will be inflicted between now and then.