User blog:Spikewitwicky/April 24th, 2015 - Spike's Journal Entry



Jumal had a few things to do elsewhere today. Fortunately, he'll come back in a few days so we can finish our talks. But at this moment, it just felt like both of us needed to get away from one another. I know I likely pissed him off. And Primus knows, he's pissed me off.

But let's go through this 'day in the life' scenario. Say the Autobots did have a Decepticon-free year on Earth. How would that look? And let's say Prime fully followed what deep in his programming - would want to do. And for anyone who is reading this after I die - anyone who's not my family - this is just my take - not what Prime really thinks. Prime uses Teletraan Two to locate every dictatorship, every place where people are oppressed. Every place where your rights are restricted because you're a woman, you're of a different faith (or no faith), your skin color, your sexuality, your tribal alliance. And Prime uses the full Autobot resources to oust these assholes in power. What's left? Who replaces them?

In several cases, there may be a great leader in the waiting (Jumal). In others, there's this chaotic vacuum. Resources need to be maintained. Water needs to flow. Electricity needs to run. If there's no one to run this stuff, then Prime starts to instill other Autobots to run the different countries - until someone emerges. Very soon, an occupying force emerges - an Autobot-controlled planet.

Prime and the Autobots who care about human history (let's face it, several don't) know for every fairly successful occupational transition (see Tokyo after WW2 II) - there are dozens of other examples of occupations going horribly awry. See Afghanistan. So... where does that leave us?

Prime no doubt sees us as a species still very much a work in progress. And I'm sure he wants to nudge us a little quicker than our current pace is at in the evolutionary process. But he realizes this is a horribly messy, sticky, and oftentimes violent process. We have to be the change we want to see. Spikewitwicky (talk) 15:19, April 24, 2015 (UTC)