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Thursday, March 7th, 2019
Chapter Seven: Nation
Jim pushed and pushed, ever-so-subtly to bring coherence to human
government, binding them through language systems, tribal allegiances, and
systems of fealty.
As time
progressed he allowed for the emergence of Empires, he formed city states into
nations, and principalities into kingdoms.
He
implemented different governmental systems to stand in tension with one
another, hierarchical systems of governance from the top down, which
articulated the divine right of the rulers to rule, of the nobility to inherit.
Against
these hierarchies, he developed systems of government based on mutuality and
common bonds, developed from the implicit understanding that the right to rule
stemmed from the consent of the governed.
These were
not developments that the Continuum desired, but the drama it produced when
civilizations clashed was utterly tantalizing to the Collective.
He wrote the
laws that governed the great powers of the world, and he established the
ministries which those governments revolved around, relied upon. Within those
organizations he planted replicants of himself, and the human cadre of
followers who were utterly committed to serving his ideals.
They worked
together hand in glove to orchestrate global conflict and its resolution. All
in the service of Jim’s mission.
He took
extraordinary pains to mask his work, keeping it secret from the Continuum
against impossible odds, while keeping the human societies that he manipulated
in the dark at one and the same time.
He did not conceal it all, there rumors abounded of secret societies and
secret powers, but nothing was ever substantiated, to link the rumors to the
reality.
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