I understand what you are saying, but consider the rigging could be in and telling your opponent/populace that they are going to win "Biggly" just to pull the rug out from under them as a discouragement and demoralization. That is what is really going on.
If a DS or lizard people or what ever massive control group has this much power for this long then they can keep a secret. They are letting things out to demoralize the population so they are less resistant and give up just to do what they are told.
Could be they allowed encouragement and even enthusiasm to grow to motivate the population to justify or explain the technological progress that has been made in the last 200 years. Now we are reaching its peak. The advances from here out will only be incremental and mostly efficiency and not real technological break throughs. So it is back to maintenance mode for the population and that is easiest to do when people have given up.
They are not omnipotent. I also do not think they have technology that is way more advanced. This is the process of them getting what they needed/wanted secured for the next few generations. Now they can clamp back down on the peasants. This is the process of control.
I understand what you are saying, but consider the rigging could be in and telling your opponent/populace that they are going to win "Biggly" just to pull the rug out from under them as a discouragement and demoralization. That is what is really going on.
If a DS or lizard people or what ever massive control group has this much power for this long then they can keep a secret. They are letting things out to demoralize the population so they are less resistant and give up just to do what they are told.
Could be they allowed encouragement and even enthusiasm to grow to motivate the population to justify or explain the technological progress that has been made in the last 200 years. Now we are reaching its peak. The advances from here out will only be incremental and mostly efficiency and not real technological break throughs. So it is back to maintenance mode for the population and that is easiest to do when people have given up.
They are not omnipotent. I also do not think they have technology that is way more advanced. This is the process of them getting what they needed/wanted secured for the next few generations. Now they can clamp back down on the peasants. This is the process of control.