Plastics Degradation by environment Malfunction

The Purge

Right now, anyone reading this will have to agree on one thing, we will never experience the extinct species that this planet was at one time home to. Extinction usually implies a species is forever gone to the generations after its extinction. Even the life that was alive on this planet as a species when we were born, many of that life is never to be seen again by mankind. Since there are extinctions that I can barely recollect within my own solitary generation, when seeking to become aware of all the extinctions can be overwhelming to learn.

Since "our" educational curriculum is contrived by capitalists (and oddly enough, not our education department), we can rest assured that the history of the extinctions will barely reach the level of a sound-byte within the classroom. A classroom to prepare the young adult into becoming a productive member of society by getting a job as an astronaut, a president, a policeman, a doctor.

Our Archaeologists, historians, and others in the work of antiquity have unearthed wondrous finds. We all marvel at some of the largest of the historical finds, such as the pyramids, Stonehenge, etc. Many of the created buildings are unable to be duplicated by modern equipment and manpower.

So the knowledge of this unknown technological breakthrough having derived before our time, can only mean one thing, a great purge.

When an entire civilization is wiped out, so is much of the technology of that particular civilization. The rest of the world may not have had the particular technology at the time of being wiped out, hence the world may not see that particular technology forever more.

With each successive surviving generation come altered needs. In the beginning we only needed a cave and a bat; now we need a codes-approved house and a license to carry. Tomorrow it might be a computer in your head or hand (who knows what tomorrow will bring?).

The fact that we cannot explain how the pyramids were built, for example, is probably due to the changes in societal needs of the present generation more-so than a forever-indiscoverable answer. Society isn't holding pyramid-making at the top of their priority list (usually paying the bills, going to court, answering emails, going to work, eating, fishing, smoking pot, etc. would take precedence in our present society, for example).

The Crapilator Scenario:

The Crapilator Scenario Part Two:

So after the dust and smoke subsides and the world's dead bury themselves, come new priorities to the survivors. Some of the survivors are not chemists and are not nuclear physicists and don't know how to purify water to suffice an entire community. The world's population would suddenly be dumbed-down to a level of less than what they were.

Now image decades and generations later, the new population (along with its new set of needs and priorities) dig up some earth in their backyard and find something strange. It's not a dinosaur or a pyramid but something strange and new and something that the particular generation could not duplicate (because it was a man-made product reduced and transformed into a new substance (whether for good or bad), how might they explain to their children why the new archeology finds so many buildings without boarded up windows? And if gas and oil were to no longer be a priority for the surviving generations, what would be their take on all the junk in the ground?