Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Truth of This World

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It has been a long time since I last wrote a diary. Now that this world has already been destroyed, I shall write one more entry to record it…

Are you watching?
You, the one reading this diary?
The reason I write these entries is simply the hope that someone will come to see what I have written.
To discover these unprecedented truths.
I fear that not long from now I will have my memory wiped, or perhaps I will personally deny the authenticity of this diary, but before that happens, I must declare clearly: everything here is true. Please read carefully.

Where should I begin? Perhaps with war.

War—a kind of organized violence, where hostile parties engage in armed conflict to achieve political, economic, territorial, and other objectives.
It is the ultimate manifestation of conflict!
War represents the deprivation of interests, the expansion of power, the acquisition of resources, and the growth of territory—ah, what a splendid goddess of war she is!
Yet beauty always comes with shadows.
Those shadows are ugly. War stimulates the economy, like a drug injection—exhilarating and thrilling, but military industries surge while civilian industries decline, resources become scarce, prices soar, mass unemployment follows, and the people suffer!

The more modern the war, the greater the death toll, and its destructive power on the economy is immense.
The First World War—the Second World War—these foolish humans will likely continue the cycle of war until the world’s end.
But war is not so simple; it is the continuation of politics, a necessary means to realize economic goals!

Everything! Everything! For profit! Profit above all! As long as there is profit, nothing else matters!

In your eyes, do you think it is the heads of great nations waging war for their own interests?
That is a joke.

Because this world is not so simple.

Hey! Little ones! This is the modern age; this world is controlled by merchants!

They do not have many guns, nor soldiers, but they wield the supreme sword of money! They manipulate politicians, nations, public opinion, and the economy—you cannot overthrow them, because they have become one with the state, with the economy. They are the state. They are the economy.

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Of course, there are always exceptions. The People’s Republic of China—such so-called red nations—are not controlled by merchants. In a sense, this is not tyranny, but a kind of superiority!

How do you feel now? Proud? Do you believe that being a citizen of such a country is inherently honorable?

Then you are wrong, gravely mistaken.

In this world, the system does not represent everything; a nation’s strength is the foundation of dignity and survival.

The previous story ended against the backdrop of such a decaying and complex world—

In the beginning of the new story, let me speak of how this world was destroyed.

This world revolves around profit.

Merchants, in pursuit of profit, will stop at nothing. The largest merchant family in this world bears the surname ‘Rockefeller.’ In the nineteenth century, they founded the petroleum empire. The discovery of oil greatly propelled modern technological growth, and they firmly grasped this treasure, creating an immortal dynasty.

However, endless extraction of oil will eventually exhaust it, so these merchants, endowed with seemingly infinite foresight, set their sights on agricultural products—soybeans, corn, potatoes, and so on.

If you think they simply went home to farm, you are gravely mistaken again.

In the early twentieth century, a company called Monsanto was founded. Under Rockefeller’s covert guidance, Monsanto began researching genetically modified foods. Genetic modification involves destroying, grafting, and reconstructing genes to create new varieties.

Genetically modified plants yield abundantly, seeming like killers of hunger, saviors of the poor. But poverty and hunger are not so easily solved—

Many who go hungry live in countries rich in grain. India, one of the hungriest nations in the world, with a population of nine hundred million, has over two hundred million people in chronic famine. At the same time, agricultural exports account for 30% of India’s GDP. In 1999, their wheat and rice reserves reached 40.4 million tons—20 million tons above standard—yet grain remained stockpiled, and the poor stayed hungry.

The success of genetically modified food research only brought new benefits to the Rockefeller family!

The life or death of the poor means nothing to these merchants.

For example, just the People’s Republic of China imports over ten million tons annually, worth tens of billions of dollars, of genetically modified organisms and products from the United States, Canada, and other countries—soybeans, rapeseed, corn, and even seeds for planting! And these numbers are doubling every year!

Genetically modified foods have obvious defects, but merchants care nothing for the harm they cause.

Profit! Profit above all!

Yet no one expected that the food produced by these plants would be the root of the world’s destruction.

The long-term dangers of consuming genetically modified foods are catastrophic. They inflict irreparable damage on human genes—mutation, reconstruction—developing in unpredictable directions.

Mutation! Mutation! Mutation!

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I once watched a documentary, “The World According to Monsanto,” which exposed many truths hidden by the company.

Monsanto is such a company. In its rise, it produced Agent Orange, used in the Vietnam War to sabotage guerrilla fighters, resulting in massive ecological disasters for local people, animals, and plants. Of course, Monsanto likely never intended to devastate the local ecology, but tragic history is the outcome of their actions, and to this day, they neither acknowledge nor compensate for it.

Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) is another of Monsanto’s inventions. For decades, it has been the ideal material for lubricants, plasticizers, biocides, heat carriers, and transformer oils. Several Monsanto factories operate across the United States, producing these chemicals. Who would have thought that around these factories, the incidence of cancer, diabetes, and other diseases has been startlingly high for decades? A canal beside one of the factories discharges PCB-laden wastewater, yet not a single warning sign declares, “This water is poisonous.”

Later, according to declassified (note: declassified) internal documents from Monsanto, their scientists conducted numerous disease experiments related to PCB.

For example, they tossed fish into that canal (called Snow Creek), and all the fish died within three and a half minutes. There is evidence that Monsanto was fully aware of PCB’s toxicity; as one of the most hazardous carcinogens known, it has spread from those American factories to the entire world. Nearly all people, animals, and plants now carry trace residues of PCB. The declassified documents also mention that in one year, two workers repairing a leaking PCB pipeline developed hepatitis. These facts about PCB’s deadly toxicity are all recorded in Monsanto’s secret archives. The reason they refuse to make them public is simply to avoid business losses—as long as they sell PCB for one more day, Monsanto profits for one more day.

Eventually, U.S. law ruled that Monsanto must compensate over ten thousand local PCB victims with seven hundred million dollars. Many residents had PCB levels in their bodies two hundred to five hundred times higher than average, yet most tragic of all, the company’s executives remained untouched.

Not long after, Monsanto transformed into a biotechnology company and launched its flagship product—“Roundup,” ultimately capturing a huge market share.

Roundup’s success was due not only to its efficacy—efficiently eliminating weeds so farmers could focus on increasing crop yields—but also to another factor: its packaging once prominently featured the word “biodegradable,” implying that Roundup was environmentally friendly, harmless to living things. In an advertisement, a puppy carried a bottle of Roundup, cleared weeds, dug up soil, and unearthed a bone to chew, illustrating the herbicide’s safety. But in reality? According to Monsanto’s own internal tests, only 2% of Roundup’s ingredients break down in twenty-eight days. Worse still, scientists discovered that Roundup is highly toxic; it has been confirmed that its ingredients interfere with the normal division of fertilized animal eggs. In other words—

“Roundup initiates the first stage of cellular carcinogenesis. Although we cannot yet say cancer has occurred—cancer may only manifest thirty to forty years later.” So said French biologist Robert Bell.

Yet these scientists, focused on Monsanto’s moneymaking tools, failed to grasp the true dangers posed by genetically modified foods; their understanding was simply too limited.

Though they know genetic mutation is likely, and recommend avoiding GM foods, and everyone calls for resistance with such harmless phrases, they do not know the real truth.

Humankind, blinded by lies, does not know the facts: as soon as the Rockefellers press a button and release thousands of tons of special viral gases, the genes of people—already subtly influenced by GM foods—will mutate rapidly. A new evolutionary form, a virus, will swiftly emerge, divide…

That’s how the world was destroyed…

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This diary was written in English; translated into Chinese characters, it totaled over thirty thousand words. Who knows how long the author spent writing it.

When Li Feidao, Xiao Fengyu, and Qixi finished reading this diary, the three stood before the computer, stunned and speechless for a long time.