The Great Divergence Protocol

The year is 2035. The terrestrial experiments in the US and Europe have concluded. The data is irrefutable: civilizations prioritizing ideological purity over material reality collapse.

The Terrestrial Stagnation

On Earth, the "Progressive Stagnation" has set in. Public education has dissolved into mere childcare and ideological conditioning, producing a generation characterized by "trans-dysfunctionalism"—unable to cope with reality, yet highly aggressive. The cities belong to car-theft hobbyists and Jacobin mobs who worship backwardness and despise competence. The welfare state has consumed the industrial base.

The Orbital Ascent

Meanwhile, a different species of human has emerged. The children of the Midland TX engineers, the Boise innovators, and the European realists. Raised by auto-didactic homeschooling and guided by uncensored AI tutors, they rejected the terrestrial curriculum.

They are building the High Frontier. They do not socialize with the terrestrial masses; their paths never cross. While Earth argues over pronouns in the rubble, the Ascendants are deploying AST Spacemobile arrays, firing up Firefly logistics networks, and spinning up Orbital AI datacenters free from terrestrial regulation.

The goal is simple: Mine the asteroids, build O'Neill cylinders, and leave the gravity well of dysfunction behind forever.

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