Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Wednesday, March 6th, 2019
Chapter Six: State
Jim layered into the consciousness of the living weapon he was forming
an implicit acceptance of cyclical nature of revolution, the rise and fall of governments.
The individual that emerged from his work would have to be able to see the
destruction that he or she was wrecking on the Collective in a contextual structure
that seemed natural.
Jim utilized his network of spies to form political states, to build
Empires and dynasties, turning slaves in to royalty, making great armies out of
herdsmen and nomads or bandits into Kings, only to tear them down at the apex
of their power, as if in a natural cycle of growth, death, and rebirth.
This satisfied his ambition, and it satisfied the hunger of the
Collective as well.
His was the unseen hand behind the powers and principalities, he was the
invisible whisperer that conditioned the policies of the most powerful people
in the world. He would point and they would go, taking credit for the movement
to themselves, never realizing the deep influence they were subjected to.
The rulers of Earth never fully suspected how they were being
manipulated.
He exercised his power in a variety of ways, overtly and covertly, with
stealth and might.
He was a strategist, and none of the tools of statecraft were out of
reach for him: gold, sex, power, fear, he employed them like an artist would
his brush, or a sculptor his chisel and hammer.
The actors on the stage rarely knew what was happening in the grand
scheme of things. He guided them with the lightest of touches, planting seeds
inside their heads when they were children, reaping the fruit he had sewn when
it was ripe.
Everything was cultivated and he was the master planter, the invisible
gardener tending to everything that grew within his sight.
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