Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Day 324, Wednesday
November 21st, 2018
Chapter
Three: Trade
The social
structure the Empire adhered to was designed by the Continuum as a means of
reflecting on the past, on the traditions of the ancient people who formed the
Collective, who embarked on the great space-faring adventures and whose
colonies formed the Empire as we know it.
Every citizen lived their life only able to contemplate a very narrow
band of possibilities for themselves and their families.
Hope itself was discouraged, but in that bleak landscape the most
powerful hopes would blossom.
Work and trades were hereditary, and they were guarded. Farmers farmed,
builders built, and fishers fished. From one generation to the next sons
followed their fathers into work, as daughters followed their mothers into the
birthing chamber.
They married and had children within their class and caste, within their
occupation, generation after generation.
Soldiers went to war, while priests officiated the sacred rites. The
gears of the social wheel turned predictably, and only the rarest of
individuals even questioned it.
Those rare individuals produced the drama that the Continuum hungered
for, they were the source of energy that fed the Collective and kept them out
of their malaise.
There was very little opportunity for an individual or a family to
change their inherited circumstances.
As oppressive as this system was, there was comfort in it. The vast
majority of the people merely persisted, got by, and did not question what the
gods had ordained for them.
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