Stitcher
Caldari
ForgeTech Industries
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Posted - 2010.05.17 03:04:00 -
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Edited by: Stitcher on 17/05/2010 03:05:53
I've said this in a few places but... let me reiterate here.
Mankind thrives on conflict. I have always believed this. We are a species who build ourselves through a series of violent upheavals, each one driving us along to new heights both technologically and socially.
It is natural and desirable that we form our factions. Clans, tribes, corporations, nations, teams, cliques, cults, cabals, fandoms, subcultures, ideologies.... the terms don't matter, it all boils down to having a sense of "I belong to THESE groups, and not to these other ones".
we find our niche and we fight for it. We find ideas worth fighting, killing and dying for, and do just that. That is why we abhor the traitorous and treasonous among us perhaps most of all.
In the names of our chosen flags, we have waged and doubtless will wage terrible wars that scarred and reformed first the soils of the worlds we came from and, later, stripped whole asteroid belts from the skies, boiled worlds down to the bedrock and left the ragged tatters of billions of dreams behind.
This is terrible. it is also wholly desirable. It is how our species has come to be where we are. without this cruel drive to confront and overcome each other, we'd be a harmonious but dumb species of barely-sentients eking out a living among the other animals of long-legendary Earth.
Instead, we have competed with each other and our environment. We competed to live, to control the arable land, to take another tribe's women, to find new and better swords and armour for our wars, to find faster communication technologies to fund our financial empires, to produce better warp drives and exploit newer, more distant star systems.
Sansha's ideal is utopia - a harmony of mankind living together united in common purpose and free to choose their own destiny. I argue that this is the worst possible fate that could befall us.
The question is simple - how can you choose a destiny when the only way that destiny may be defined is through the triumph over adversity? If we define ourselves by the challenges we face, how can we hope to have any identity on the day when all our challenges are overcome?
Kuvakei's vision would set us on that path. Through toil and horrible, inhuman sacrifice, mankind would reach the stage where no outside influence remains against which to define and measure ourselves. The only possible route from there would be stagnation.
Only a coward embraces that destiny, or thinks it might be desirable. It is conservatism and Luddite-ism taken to the ultimate extreme. Change nothing, one Nation under the Master. Become only what He expects of us and nothing more. Aspire to nothing other than to serve Him perfectly.
I honestly pity those who embrace that philosophy of stasis. You lack the strength to accept the world for the terrible, glorious place that it is, and seek refuge in the arms of a man who would offer you eternal protection at the expense of becoming about as dynamic and interesting as a rock.
The world we live in is harsh. Our role in the universe is dark and cruel. But the challenges we face define us and drive us to improve ourselves in myriad ways.
Sansha's nation lack the strength to accept this truth. They hide from it, like the trolls of ancient Caldari legend hid their face from the sun. So long as you are content to do this thing only to your own, weak selves, then you are to be pitied but ignored.
But you insist on dragging people out of the light and into your stagnant darkness, and that is why you must be stopped.
Thank you for bringing this new challenge for us to overcome. You are strengthening us by it. But it will mean your annihilation.
Die well, Kuvakei.
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Verin "Stitcher" Hakatain. |