Faith in the system
You can have faith in the system. In procedure, in structure. Nature is a system, a self-regulating machine, and so it is only natural that man too should yearn to organise himself and his fellow man according to best principles. Man can have faith in the manual, in which the right way to do things is set down, unchanging before his eyes, and before the eyes of all who shall seek to do such things, so that all things are done the same, and lo, it is good.
It is good not to have to think too hard. Reassurance breeds serenity, contentment, placidity. Where there is no system, there is only chaos, brute violence, an orgy of selfish Neanderthal wants. Only the fittest survive, and fitness is not something we can choose or not choose. The system brings a new kind of democratic fitness. Adherence to the system is the new choice, and one that we all can make.
The system offers you peace and contentment. The system offers you the reassurance that you are right, just as right as all others who follow the system and in just the same way. There are those who choose not to follow the system, and their lives are their own indictment, the kind of dark non-secret mothers would once have invoked to frighten their children to bed at night. The system has streamlined the child-rearing process, of course, so this conversation no longer takes place.
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I'm playing around with worldviews. Please don't think that this is mine.
It is good not to have to think too hard. Reassurance breeds serenity, contentment, placidity. Where there is no system, there is only chaos, brute violence, an orgy of selfish Neanderthal wants. Only the fittest survive, and fitness is not something we can choose or not choose. The system brings a new kind of democratic fitness. Adherence to the system is the new choice, and one that we all can make.
The system offers you peace and contentment. The system offers you the reassurance that you are right, just as right as all others who follow the system and in just the same way. There are those who choose not to follow the system, and their lives are their own indictment, the kind of dark non-secret mothers would once have invoked to frighten their children to bed at night. The system has streamlined the child-rearing process, of course, so this conversation no longer takes place.
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I'm playing around with worldviews. Please don't think that this is mine.