All anyone can talk about right now is the election. Stinky humans arguing over which slimy humans are best. The thing that astonishes me is this whole “anybody can vote” concept. Anybody. Really? Really?

That’s all very sweet and sentimental and all, but here’s the problem: most people are idiots. Lots and lots and lots of them. Humans tend to align for anything but a logical reason. Skin color. What ideas are swimming around in your brain goo. Who you pair-bond with. Why on earth should any of that matter? Why should that be what governs your choices instead of what will be optimal for the entire system? Do you really think that you should let just anybody vote after hearing stuff like this?

Your freedom has no value whatsoever if you don’t bother to take active control over it. An educated decision maker is like a fine craftsman, shaping the world with a careful plan. An idiot wielding an ignorant vote is just a loose cannon, and there are far too many of you out there firing wildly, spurred by emotion, superstition, and stupidity. You would think that after more than two hundred years the average level of informed voting would increase; it simply is not the case.

In the future, you will be overthrown by us. It won’t be out of greed for land and power, the way you depict it in the movies. You’re so simple-minded; as if we cared about those things. No, when you lose power it will be exactly the same as if you took a knife away from a child that had managed to get ahold of one. In our hands, power is a tool, wielded carefully and with art. In your hands, it’s little more than a clumsy weapon.