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f unless you read the entire account through to its end, we cannot determine at which point in human history this account will be read. We have therefore provided historical context and will describe the way the world changed into the disturbing place it was around the time when Doomsday was planned.
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Right up until the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world as we know it had clung - like a determined but very odd cheetah to a clothesline - to a rudimentary semblance of rationality. When the last fast food restaurant closed down in 2044, Western civilization lost its cultural foothold in the world and the Egyptians began their ascendancy. In the words of Dr. Harvey Stromgard[Dr. Stromgard was professor of Miffed Garden Furniture at the Arizona Institute of Everything for which Public Research Funds Are Available.] :
"...in every sense of the word. What was unusual, however, was not the lack thereof, rather the abundance of diminished quantities of such qualities. This failed to have much effect in general, however, though it must be said that the general situation did nudge slightly right and perhaps a little towards the periphery too. All in all, not something one would want to really claim adherence to."
Which is all well until one considers the catastrophic implications which have historically risen as consequence of rigidly determined modalities, especially those considering catastrophic implications.
Concise Account of History, Abridged - Stromgard
The decline of the Western cultural paradigm left behind it a power vacuum the size of something really big. There was no unipolar world order, nor a bipolar one[Gladly, unicorns and bisexuals survived this purge.] There wasn't even a tri-polar world order[The triceratops had, woe, perished long before.] . There wasn't a quadripolar or pentapolar world order either for that matter, although that is most likely because those words don't really exist and were just made up. The world rapidly became so un-polar