“It is not the strong who benefit in their system, no matter what they say. It is the weak. It is the ones willing to do anything, sacrifice anything, to rise. It rewards avarice.”
"That's the problem with people, though, isn't it? They always think that other people are the problem. You want to remove the Princeps The senators? You'll just become them, sooner or later. If all you're trying to do is change who's in control, then you don't really want to change anything."
- The Will of the Many
"The structure of this place is meant to mimic the Heirarchy. So how hard you work and how smart you are is ... not irrelevant, obviously. But they're only factors in a much larger equation. You keep thinking of it as a fair system. Be good enough, and you'll be justly rewarded. The best rise to the top. All that rotting nonsense. Do you think it's any different, out there? Do you think that every single Septimus stuck in their position is less talented than every single Sextus? Or even less talented than the Sextus they’re ceding to? A fair system only works if there's an unbiased means of assessing merit. When there is no pride or selfishness involved. Which means that fair systems cannot exist where people are involved.”
- The Will of the Many, by James Islington
We spent 30 years listening to Israel say that Iran was 5 years away from getting a nuke
Meanwhile, Israel has had nukes for over 50 years
Who’s the real threat?
“That’s the power of the Heirarchy—we do, because there is no standing apart. You fight the tyranny of the many, or you are one of them. Silence is a statement, Diago. Inaction picks a side. And when those lead to personal benefit, they are complicity.”
- The Will of the Many, by James Islington
Orthodoxy = Radicalism * Truth + Time
A Radical ideas based on the nature of reality over a long enough timeline become the orthodox way of thinking
Until some minute detail that didn’t fully agree with the nature of reality is confronted by a radical idea that is more closely aligned with the nature of reality replaces it over time
ad infinitum
