The humans in the audience naturally felt a little pride at being one of those humans with limitless potential that the announcer kept praising. They had all been caught in the net that Diana had cast for all of them. Like unknowing fish, they had come in the range of the net by themselves for the fisherman to collect.
"But when the baton was passed over to our generations and those before us, something terrible happened that makes me want to hide my face in shame in front of my incessant and persevering ancestors."
The whole audience was burning with curiosity as to what she was going to say. All of them were impatient to hear the answer but Diana on the stage just looked at the audience with a crestfallen expression that caused them to hold their breath.
"We stagnated."
Just two words…but those words struck into the hearts of all those present. They had been ruthlessly excluded from the humans with limitless potential.
