Of course, Valentine Richést, Bob's outward face, also now had a horse in the PPV race.
Well to be more precise, he now had… several 🫢✨
Coincidentally, fittingly, and extremely conveniently, as if the stuff of legends, like it was the bizarre fever-dreamed-up plot of a one-of-a-kind webnovel that somehow never ceased to entertain [well at least Author found it entertaining so technically there was that] Arroe Gant and Meatius Maximus signing up to the "Become-a-Hero" program in the lead up to their much anticipated [and somewhat drawn out now due to Author getting distracted by going down the rabbit hole that was probability theory, but that is a story for another Chapter… probably 🫢✨] PPV clash, in the spirit of "The Art of Rizz", truly had the potential now to become a Win-Win experience for all parties involved!!?!?!
Indeed. World 'Domination'. Bobs and Bobette Jnrs. The Future of Humanity. All of these things were of course still Valentine's main focus - the locus, the place, where he was intending to do… something that might make these objectives come true!!!
But in the process, he had come to discover, that there were also other… considerations that needed to be taken into account -
Humanity seemed to clearly amount… to a lot more than just simple 'good and bad'.
It seemed that there was a large amount of variety to be had… different ideas as to what constituted a 'plus', as opposed to being rather more 'sus'…
Arroe Gant. Meatius Maximus. The PPV…
The World, it seemed, was tuning in, to witness two… men, one thick, one thin, showcase their hot, sweaty, half-naked tussle on prime-time PPV TV, and this had opened Valentine's eyes to see…
The varied, unique qualities…
that made up Humanity…
The sheer… Possibilities… for what could be…!!!
And Of course.
…Lucy ✨
Even as he researched on [Human] H2.0 💦, for 'some reason', the golden-haired girl seemed to be appearing more and more often in his mind… and as he examined his Awareness, he had come to find… that she seemed… different… more like one of a kind…(!?) Someone that possessed her own… Will… a sense of "Life" she wished to experience and live, and as a result, thanks to her, he found that he wanted to give…
People a way to live their best life, but in a way that could minimize unnecessary strife ✨
What would it be like? If the [Future of Humanity] became the kind of place where someone like Lucy could Live, happy, cherished, and ful…filled? ✨🫢
If the 'Arroes' and 'Meatiuses' could potentially get their time in the sun, arising from their opportunities to 'become'…
Returning to the barren field or garden analogy [in Chapter 144] - it seemed that 'World Domination' consisted less of literal, crude 'domination' and more of optimizing for a healthy living ecosystem to deliver a certain result - what if this were more skewed towards Possibility and Human Happiness?
If his legacy, descendants and offspring could be considered as vibrant, integral parts of a thriving garden, then the "Life" of people and their very acts of living could be considered to add a certain richness and depth to the ecosystem that might not be possible otherwise.
The only issue though was to decide then, what 'World Domination' would optimise for.
This was where Research and Development into Human H2.0 💦 could come in. H2.0 research aimed to help bring into being a more Aware, less destructive kind of Human being, less dependent on the primitive tendencies of the primate shell that housed the Divine Consciousness - if indeed they could be even separated. In that case, he would aim to create a system where the best parts of Humanity, or the Divine Consciousness were kept, but the negative impacts of the often short-sighted, primate tendencies were minimised, keeping in mind the importance of giving people the Freedom to become the best versions of themselves, thereby allowing for an increasingly universal improvement for the entire 'Ecosystem' that comprised Humans and their relationship with the Environment around them.
At the same time - and the PPV was the clear case in point - Humanity was richly diverse - and regardless of how one felt about it all, attention, popular thought, collective beliefs and narratives, all ultimately added up to shape the Reality. This was not to say that anything went - ultimately, it seemed that People, being social creatures, would have natural commonly-agreed-on 'narratives' that would underpin the fabric of society. But regardless of what Valentine or intended to optimize towards, the more important thing was whether or not enough people would actually *believe* in this enough to shift the Society as a whole - in other words, to actually change the Future of Humanity… and keeping in mind the importance of giving people the freedom to make real, informed Choices - Valentine had to change… the prevailing narrative enough so that everyone in the world actually believed and supported it - with the important caveat that the results actually had to be better, given what was agreed on as the way forward for Humanity.
It was extremely debatable whether or not this was even possible - that is, whether or not something could shape the prevailing societal beliefs and narratives to such a degree that people could all come on board - though arguably, there was a precedent in various religions that had significantly shaped Humanity's beliefs over the course of history.
Not to mention, that The objective helpfulness and or Truth of those beliefs, even if popular, was of course another completely separate matter.
For example. Take a popular vote chess game. Even if a chess grandmaster suggested the objectively 'best move' in a position, if it was up to the popular group vote, and the group were not convinced or did not know enough about the situation, they would often as a group decide on a suboptimal choice simply because... they could, or perhaps because a superficial line of reasoning was promoted by whoever in the group was the loudest or most influential, and or well that was the extent of the knowledge that they could possess at that given time.
This then stressed the importance of first of all, of knowing clearly the Objective that the [Future of Humanity] Project was working towards.
It had started off with World Domination. But increasingly, it also seemed important to include giving People like Lucy ✨ and *yes*, including the… unique individuals like Arroe, and Meatius the Freedom to Live their best lives, whilst minimizing the negative impacts arising from the foibles of the People and the System.
Education, via his Education and Training Academy, alongside Human H2.0 research would increasingly allow Humanity in the Future to more reliably make more life-affirming, hopefully better, and more informed decisions, both as individuals and as a collective, and at the same time, work would need to be done to present the ideas and vision to more or less well… Everyone so that they could decide for themselves whether or not this was a Future that they, as a Society, genuinely wanted.
Ordinarily of course, and particularly in this day and age, attention was itself a commodity, and it was unlikely that most people currently would be exposed to any given idea, even if it was actually something potentially great, simply due to the real world limits and constraints of time, attention, awareness, and exposure.
Fortunately though. It had just so happened that a certain upcoming event had managed to pick up some traction… and this meant that it was quite possible…
That the [Future of Humanity] Project … could *at last*… get some action… ✨🔥