Chapter 696

【Let us first wish the "Chaos Insurgency" success, so that humanity no longer needs to distinguish between "normality" and "anomalies," and that this exploration process does not require the Foundation to clean up their mess.】

【--Although I know this is basically impossible.】

【Alright, back to the topic.】

【Before this, please review the "Mission Statement" in the "Employee Handbook."】

【Yes, the "Mission Statement."】

【I believe that most of you, except for reading this thing once when you joined, and reading it by rote, have thrown it aside.】

【This is nothing; according to common practice, no matter what organization it is, reading the "Mission Statement" is just going through the motions.】

【The so-called "Mission Statement" is just some ornament to decorate the facade, grand enough, blood-boiling enough, and empty and boring enough.】

【But from its establishment to the present, the Foundation, on the whole, has been practicing the declaration.】

"Interesting; the Administrator didn't think about avoiding the question at all and chose to face it directly."

"Indeed, but why is the Administrator so pessimistic about the 'Chaos Insurgency'? Is it purely because of their stance? Or because they always fail?"

"Always fail, I guess... after all, the Chief Engineer admitted it himself."

Immediately following, what was displayed on the light screen was the series of monologues when the Foundation first reappeared in the world.

Except for a slight discrepancy in time, the rest of the text remained unchanged.

【Humanity has multiplied for 250,000 years, and only the last 4,000 years have been meaningful.】

【So, what were we doing for nearly 250,000 years?】

【We hid in caves, sat around small campfires, and feared those things we didn't understand.】

【--Those explanations about how the sun rises, those monsters with human heads and bird bodies, those living stones.】

【So we called them "gods" and "demons" and prayed to them for forgiveness and salvation.】

【After that, their numbers decreased, and our numbers increased.】

【When we feared fewer and fewer things, we began to look at this world more rationally.】

【However, things that couldn't be explained didn't disappear, as if the universe deliberately wanted to show absurdity and incredibility.】

【Humanity can no longer live in fear.】

【Nothing can protect us; we must protect ourselves.】

【When others live in the sun, we must fight them in the shadows and prevent them from being exposed to the public eye, so that others can live in a rational, ordinary world.】

【Operating in the shadows all over the world, the Foundation's goal is to contain anomalous items, individuals, and phenomena, and its own operations are not subject to the jurisdiction, authorization, and commission interference of various major national governments.】

【These anomalies pose a significant threat to global security through physical or psychological harm.】

【The Foundation maintains normality, so that civilians all over the world can survive and be free from the influence of fear, disbelief, or doubt in personal beliefs, and maintains humanity's independence and autonomy from extraterrestrial, interdimensional, and outer space influences.】

【Our mission is three-fold:】

【Secure】

【The Foundation secures anomalies to prevent them from falling into the hands of civilians or hostile organizations, through extensive observation and monitoring and taking action to intercept them as early as possible.】

【Contain】

【The Foundation contains anomalies to prevent their influence or effects from spreading, through relocating, concealing, or dismantling them, or by suppressing or preventing public dissemination of knowledge about them.】

【Protect】

【The Foundation protects humanity from the influence of anomalies and protects the anomalies themselves until they are fully understood and new scientific theorems are developed based on their characteristics and behaviors.】

【If an anomaly is judged to be excessively dangerous when contained, the Foundation may also use neutralizing or destroying the anomaly as a last resort.】

"Ah, suddenly I have the illusion that a long time has passed."

"Hmm, it's like returning to the beginning when the Foundation first came out."

"Unknowingly, we have also become accustomed to the existence of the Foundation."

【The answer is obvious.】

【Arguing about whether to guard "humanity" or guard "normality" has no value.】

【The Foundation does maintain normality, but the purpose is to allow humanity to survive and to allow humanity to maintain its independence and autonomy from 760 extraterrestrial, interdimensional, and outer space influences.】

【"Normality" is the means; "humanity" is the purpose.】

【The difference between using colchicine to create polyploids and using "Supreme Sky Parasites" to ascend to godhood also lies here.】

【In fact, the entire human race ascending to godhood is not an absolutely prohibited matter.】

【Humanity relying on its own wisdom, understanding of the essence of the world, or suddenly awakening as a reality bender, and then ascending to divinity, or even supreme divinity, are all permitted matters.】

【As long as these superhumans don't go and mess around in the world of ordinary people.】

【What is prohibited is that humanity, in order to ascend to godhood, abandons its independence and autonomy and rashly uses anomalous items, divinity, and supreme divinity.】

【What Dr. Fermi thinks, that there are no "anomalies" and "normality," is for the universe, for the multiverse, and for the narrative array.】

【Not for humanity, this fragile existence that has been destroyed in countless apocalypses and restarted after countless apocalypses.】

【We distinguish between "normality" and "anomalies" because those existences are too mysterious for us.】

【Even if we have written so-called "thaumaturgy theory," "reality theory," and "narrative theory," we are just looking at the black shadows on the cave wall and guessing what their bodies outside the cave actually are.】

【The "normality" mentioned by the Foundation is not the stiff, motionless "normality" in Professor Fermi's mouth.】

【Aren't the researchers working in the Foundation working to crack the secrets of those "anomalies," so that they can be understood and new scientific theorems can be unfolded before humanity?】

【We are waiting for one anomaly after another to be fully understood, de-numbered, and entered into "normality."】

【I also want to quote Hegel here—this sage who loves wisdom so much in every universe.】

【Was vernünftig ist, das ist wirklich; und was wirklich ist, das ist vernünftig.】

【What is rational is real; and what is real is rational.】

【Rather than the nonsensical translation of "existence is rational."】

【The "reason" Hegel speaks of has nothing to do with morality, nothing to do with human reason, and nothing to do with the collective unconscious, but is the "Absolute Spirit."】

【As for how the "Absolute Spirit" should be understood, I will not go into details here; those interested can read "Science of Logic" by themselves.】

【This sentence has a more cold-blooded saying:】

【What is rational can also exist; the current existence is destined to perish, while reason lasts forever.】.