Honestly, looking at all the races and humanity itself in real life... I realise that in the grand scheme of things, everything we do is meaningless anyway.
When we die, we eventually won't be remembered because everyone who knows us shall perish as well.
Looking at human history, it's like looking at hypocrisy and how people find new ways for the same old goals from 2000 years in the past. The Romans were invincible, felt their society was the greatest expanse of human existence... and fell. As did the Byzantine empire, The Turkish empire, the British empire, the USSR, and soon America's idea of an empire (the more foolish of society actually citing the golden ages of the Roman empire and ignoring the fact it was due to taxes that the goddamn civilization fell to pieces). Human arrogance in the belief their society is the elite of the elite. That their achievements and breakthroughs in science, medicine, and law can never be outdone or replaced. That they ARE the pinnacle and aren't simply at an apex.
This arrogance is explored in the game, both by humantiy itself and through fictional alien races. The Reapers are the Gods, mechanical ones, but dieties none the less. They give valuable lessons in bringing down the arrogance that borders on stupidity. They teach us that we are just mortal, we are not like them, we are not perfection. We used their resources to strengthen ourselves and they could very easily take us down.
I wouldn't need indoctrination to help the Reapers. We humans do the same garbage everyday. We go to school, work, and periodically repeat the same habits for nearly all of our lifetimes. The scant few moments spent on fun and vacation are so small in comparison that it's laughable.
In fact... most of humanity, in real life, exaggerate and popularize 'doomsday' scenarios. Recently it was the rapture, before it was Swine flu, before that Avian flu, mad cow disease, Y2K, and you can keep stretching this even further back then the Red-scare paranoia about nuclear bomb threats and how the only way in making sure you were alive was if you were in a fetal position under your desk.
Why do we create such hyperboles? On nearly a monthly basis...? Because most, if not all, of humanity wish for a release from the same events we endure everyday. Because we feel we are wasting our lives on such mundane acts regardless.
Therefore, it is galling that we couldn't join Sovereign. The most perfect Hero to have ever been created.
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