The Long March.
As a species, we have long outgrown our own fairytales and legends.
As our awareness of the universe surrounding us has increased, the ancient mythologies and religions that once held sway over us have become outdated, outmoded, and almost completey useless.
The thorough investigations called for by the scientific method and the cold calculations required by reason have become the new foundations for our society.
The result of this new foundation has been improvements to our standard of living.
The cost of the new standard has been the peace of mind of technophobic medievalists who are uncomfortable with the advancement of any technology, and still resort to believing in the fictions propagated by our ignorant ancestors.
Science has given us the ability to kill microbes within a body without burning or boiling the body, thus defeating diseases that once felled millions of our kind.
Science has given us the ability to replace a human heart with an artificial propeller that performs the same function as a biological heart without the damage caused by a biological heart's pumping action, allowing us to replace failed organs.
Science has given us the knowledge we need to clean up the environmental disaster that begun ages ago, when coal first began to be burned in massive quantities.
Science has allowed us to see far into the sky, and thus understand how our world was formed.
Science has given us the knowledge that we need to eventually evacuate this world when Sol finally gives up the ghost and goes nova.
The campfire stories which our ancestors created to explain our origins and ultimate destination now have too little meat in them to sustain us; to try to get by on them is as unsatisfying as if we were wolves trying to feed ourselves by preying on fieldmice.
Reason and the scientific method have crept like nanites into the world once ruled with a clenched fist by superstition and fantasy, replacing flesh and vapid imaginings with steel and silicone.
I embrace this change, and look forward to the continued transformation of our people.
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