“That’s…that’s hard to comprehend.”
“Why?”
“If that’s true, then we…I mean the human race wouldn’t be here if…What do you expect from us?”
“We want nothing from you, Mr. Conner, but your survival and success as an emergent species of luminary beings. Your own future is inviting you into itself. We would like to see you accept that invitation. That is all we would like from you.”
“How do we do that?”
“With, and only through, your human imagination. The living reality of a peaceful and abundant future already exists latent in the human imagination. For humans, and all sentient creatures, to imagine is to weave their future reality. Matter responds to thought, and imagination is the portal through which ideas become manifested reality. What is born to the imagination will be born into your world.”
“Who are the ones you call the Millennials?”
“They are your descendants, the first of your kind to achieve extended life spans with some individuals living nearly twenty -two hundred years.”
“What accounts for their longevity?”
“Examinations will show they all registered very high levels of plant DNA in their blood. The genetic instructions that initiate accelerated brain evolution are found in the organic chemistry of plants, especially fruits and berries.”
“So these people are vegetarians.”
“That’s correct. Generations of biomolecular interaction between plant chemistry and brain physiology eventually produced in these individuals sharply enhanced cognitive performance, and extended life spans. The bulk of humanity however, will not be similarly advantaged.”
“Why not?”
“Starting in your twentieth century, the global mass consumption of adulterated food stocks and the industrial slaughter of animals for consumption introduced chemical toxins into the human gene pool, spawning hundreds of new diseases. The countless millions who regularly consumed these foodstuffs produced offspring that were genetically damaged and prone to disease. These populations will die off in the coming upheaval. While at the same time, to counter this general trend, a small percentage of the human population chose to avoid the chemical pollutants of an industrialized food supply. Their pristine, plant-based, vegetarian diet will confer upon their progeny immunity from the coming global pandemics. Their DNA will survive. Present-day vegetarians are the living progenitors of those we call the Millennials. The genetic intimacy between plant, and human DNA is something your science is only beginning to understand.”
“Our species has been consuming meat for hundreds of thousands of years. Are you saying it will now harm us?”
“Meat once played a vital role in supplying the protein needed for increased brain size, but when brain growth reaches a critical mass, meat consumption becomes a hindrance to accelerated brain evolution. Complexity, and efficiency are then needed, not bulk. The human brain, and physique will become smaller in the future.”
“How will that happen?”
“Through millions of years of evolution, uniquely elaborate organic molecules have developed from the complex chemistry of plants. That is what will open the door to mankind’s evolutionary future.
Over time, vegetarians whose offspring continue as plant eaters will inherit subtle molecular changes in their brain physiology, measurably accelerating, and enhancing cognitive ability. Through their genetic lineage, those who are to be called ‘The Millenials’ will eventually be descended.”
“What about the rest of humanity?”
“They will die out. The Millennials will branch off from the genetic line of Homo sapiens, and become Neo homo. Neo homo will inherit your future just as you inherited Neanderthal’s future.”
“And most of humanity has to die so that can happen, is that what you’re saying?” Vice President Conner asks.
“Those individuals who carry the genetic precursors that will initiate this profound evolutionary change in coming generations presently number fewer than one in ten thousand. They alone carry this latent genetic prototype, and they alone, are the forerunners of a new genetic line of the genus Homo. If the cumbersome bulk of present human population were to survive, it would overwhelm and repress that fragile strain of mutational DNA that is now only dimly nascent in the human gene pool. Large pools of DNA insure diversity but evolve far more slowly. Smaller populations accelerate evolutionary complexity. That will happen when global human population is reduced to under sixty million. The coming upheaval will do that, allowing a genetically superior being to inherit the planet and its future.”