Aberrant: 200X - Ask A Nova!

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In a very real sense, novas rule the world. You rule the world. Not as an individual, but a collective. Congratulations. You got a ticket to Club Novus.

Now what?

The only sense in which novas rule the world is the sense that people wish we did to make us an even more convenient target.

How many novas sit on the governing board of Project Utopia? How many novas sit on the UN Council? How many of us are president or prince, king or queen?

Our power is purely personal at this stage, and it is intellectually dishonest to pretend otherwise. Every law that governs our existence was created by and is largely enforced by baselines.

It might be more accurate to say that we rule our world, the personal space in which we exist, for we almost all have the power to define the world directly around us should we so choose. But ah, then steps in the iron hard social doctrine with which we all grew up. Many novas do not even exercise their powers to that extent, preferring simply to do as they have always done, with more sparkles.

Claiming that novas 'rule the world as a collective' is missing that there is no nova collective. Any gathering of novas has differing agendas, and most of them compete or are subsumed for the desires of baselines. See Utopia.

I won't pretend that we aren't dangerous. Of course we are. But we're a long, long way from being able to take over even a small bit of the world, let alone rule it as a collective.

Ask this question again when a social hawk has charmed their way to the presidency and begun to repeal a few laws and pass a few that give genuine favour to novas. As it stands, the halls of power are barred to us.