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I know some skaa soldiers who fought in one of the Lord Ruler’s Suppression Campaigns.” Yeden paled. “Traitors!” Ham shrugged. “Most of them aren’t proud of what they did,” he said. “But most of them also like to eat. It’s a hard world, Yeden.”
Mistborn Trilogy
Brandon Sanderson
In the Middle Ages this was the idea that finally turned that world into something like a wasteland, a land where people were living inauthentic lives, never doing a thing they truly wanted to because the supernatural laws required them to live as directed by their clergy. In a wasteland, people are fulfilling purposes that are not properly theirs but have been put upon them as inescapable laws. This is a killer.
The Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
The terrorists hope that when the state tries to fulfill this impossible mission, it will reshuffle the political cards and hand them some unforeseen ace.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
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