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Empire Building quote
May. 23rd, 2007 01:04 pm"What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the up building of one… There's good money in empire building. But, there's more in empire wrecking." Rhett Butler, Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell).
Human beings will always look out for a way to profit from one another. Since the first being walked the land, they looked to best one another. They looked to prove themselves worthy over another, whether it was to get the blessing of their god, or the affection of a mate.
As we evolved, our needs changed. No longer did we require just the simple things in life, but now we came to need "names". We wanted to be known to others, and to have them acknowledge us with the respect we felt we deserved. We would work to build empires of gold, mountains in which we can sit upon and look down at those who, as we believed, were not as good as us.
Were beneath us.
But as we looked down on others, it just made the one who were "lesser" angry. The "name" you made was not seen as a empire of gold, but instead of tyranny and unjust. And they would spread this word to others, corrupting the "name" and thus the Empire. Then, the same angry ones would create ways to bring down the empire of gold, taking the gold from the empire into their own coffers and using it to start on their own empires.
Soon, the gold is tarnished beyond recognition, and the circular nature of humans repeating the past continues. Empires rise and fall. And it is the greedy who profit.
Currently the rise of the mutant "empire" scares the homo-sapians. And the greedy spread the stories of the evil in this empire. And they are the same who build the Sentinels. The ones who developed the horror known as the Legacy Virus.
They profit from the fear and anger at the mutant race. They prevent the empire from having the "gold" which would bring peace. And so it will continue until the end of time, no matter what either side does.
Life and death. To build and to destroy. It is encoded in all of our genes, homo-sapian and superior alike. We can not change that. We can only change ourselves, if we choose to. And teach the next generation.
Human beings will always look out for a way to profit from one another. Since the first being walked the land, they looked to best one another. They looked to prove themselves worthy over another, whether it was to get the blessing of their god, or the affection of a mate.
As we evolved, our needs changed. No longer did we require just the simple things in life, but now we came to need "names". We wanted to be known to others, and to have them acknowledge us with the respect we felt we deserved. We would work to build empires of gold, mountains in which we can sit upon and look down at those who, as we believed, were not as good as us.
Were beneath us.
But as we looked down on others, it just made the one who were "lesser" angry. The "name" you made was not seen as a empire of gold, but instead of tyranny and unjust. And they would spread this word to others, corrupting the "name" and thus the Empire. Then, the same angry ones would create ways to bring down the empire of gold, taking the gold from the empire into their own coffers and using it to start on their own empires.
Soon, the gold is tarnished beyond recognition, and the circular nature of humans repeating the past continues. Empires rise and fall. And it is the greedy who profit.
Currently the rise of the mutant "empire" scares the homo-sapians. And the greedy spread the stories of the evil in this empire. And they are the same who build the Sentinels. The ones who developed the horror known as the Legacy Virus.
They profit from the fear and anger at the mutant race. They prevent the empire from having the "gold" which would bring peace. And so it will continue until the end of time, no matter what either side does.
Life and death. To build and to destroy. It is encoded in all of our genes, homo-sapian and superior alike. We can not change that. We can only change ourselves, if we choose to. And teach the next generation.
