The Fun-Loving President: “Everyone, the latest variety show is officially here! It will run for five hundred years! We created twelve gods for this planet called Earth, granting them immortality and divine powers. We told them that in five hundred years, we would destroy their civilization, and that they had five hundred years to figure out how to fight back against us!”...
Audience member: “There's no way they can beat us, right? They haven't even built an antimatter engine. Aren't they doomed to lose?”
Another audience member: “Well, their civilization is developing fast. In five hundred years, who knows whether we'll still be able to beat them...”
The Fun-Loving President: “We've used the [Eye] to seal off their technology, so victory is guaranteed. Please stay tuned!”
All the audience members: “Hooray!”
One audience member: “As expected of the president. He really thought of everything.”
Over the next four hundred and fifty years, the development of human technology slowed more and more, and signs of regression even appeared in some regions. Just as all the viewers believed Earth was doomed to lose, a blue laser shot down to Earth from a hidden Fun-Lover starship.
As the audience began to worry, the president instead burst out laughing. The Fun-Loving President: “Everyone! This is going to be a real show...”
A new worldview.