Emergence 3.0
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Thursday, May 9th, 2019
Chapter Seven: Sacrifice
From the rebel chief to the common soldier and every rank in between,
the focus of each individual included a daily meditation on death
A revolution
cannot survive without sacrifice, the rebel Observers understood this. They
sacrificed each other with great regularity, they did not count loyalty to one
another as a virtue.
Theirs was a
society of self-interest. Their common desire for autonomy united them more
than any commitment to their ideals.
It was a
rare occasion that would result in any member of the Observer Corps sacrificing
their own self for the sake of their fellows, or for their movement.
It was rare,
but it did happen.
Even a
member of the Collective could arrive at a place where they were willing to serve
a cause greater than their own purposes; the key dynamics always involved
generating feelings of hopelessness, helplessness and despair within them.
They had to
perceive that they were in a trap and that being trapped there was no escape,
and so their sacrifice was reduced to a final gesture of defiance against the
Continuum which they abhorred.
These were
rare moments, and every one of them mattered.
They could
be engineered, as most of them were. They were engineered by their fellows who
had some advantage to gain in seeing them disposed of.
It happened
through betrayal.
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