The party was on a down, people were standing around and chatting casually, not unlike a well moderated chatroom in a world with internet. It was pleasant, everyone tried to add something to the conversation a friendly talk about survival irrelevant things such as happyness, sadness and how it applied to the perception of aspects of the material world.

This would normally be a good way to release postively valued emotions, but as the world had changed quite a lot, the values had drifted - the dissonance imposed this chatter on them, a way to remain true to their ancient rituals which had become obsolete from the point of view of a survivalist.

Sigmund ignored the people talking about soccer and looked around for the food.

The buffet was empty and there were a few chewing people standing around it.

There also was a long line of people waiting. A tired sigh rippled forth from Sigmunds lungs.

The tiredness claimed him after being woken up in the middle of the night, having built stakes internally and then seeing them crumble to dust - the worst case scenario had already happened, Sigumund assumed.

In his ignorance he had failed to take into consideration the fact that even if the human is not consumed by the will to consume, the state of contentment would rob the human of the will to solve any problem that might happen.

Most certainly mankind could solve most problems through planning, following through with the plan and keeping on adjusting according to the newest data, if they had not the tendency to divide and multiply, to act unreasonably extreme when in immediate danger, unreasonably optimistic when given a temporary state of safety, maybe 100 years

and first and foremost, if the circumstances allowed it.

Yes not every problem had a neat solution, sometimes one could merely make tradeoffs - slave labor in a poor country or not owning luxury article A?

Well paid labor would make the luxury article A only available for those on top of the pyramid scheme. In a culture in which luxury article A was a human right, the top of the pyramid scheme could not just forcefully deny them the right to have slaves as that would invite the lower ranks to topple the entire system which was benefitting the top.

So they clothed the lower ranks in the noble fabrics, disguised their hungry faces with their physical appearance of well washed nobility.

It would last quite a while, until the sun would shine truth onto what had occured, the rays of light indiscriminately showing the happenings to anyone with eyes.

As sure as the sun would rise a pyramid, the symbol of stability, would topple when the ground beneath it breaks - soon people will find out why turning the world into a 4 sided die/pyramid in a metaphorical sense, had doomed them in a physical sense.

Let us just blame the time before the second rebranding.