[He thinks of the patterns of cities. He thinks of Lourdes, and her puppet drills, and he aches.]
It is human nature. It's literally how we evolved. 15,000 years ago humans were building houses out of clay bricks in Turkey to control their environment, to keep out the rain and wild animals. We came up with laws and priests and kings mostly so we could live together without destroying each other over resources because we could make more working together. Plumbing and the domestication of dogs and the moon landing and art, all of those things are only possible because of organization. Because of the impulse to control things around us and change them to suit us. That's how we survived and it's wired in really deep.
Control hurts people sometimes, either on purpose or just out of ignorance. A lot, if people aren't careful, and compassionate. But it doesn't have to, and that's not all it does.
[Dillon believes in evil. But he doesn't know how to define or explain it. Some choices hurt people: that's empirical, that's easy.]
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It is human nature. It's literally how we evolved. 15,000 years ago humans were building houses out of clay bricks in Turkey to control their environment, to keep out the rain and wild animals. We came up with laws and priests and kings mostly so we could live together without destroying each other over resources because we could make more working together. Plumbing and the domestication of dogs and the moon landing and art, all of those things are only possible because of organization. Because of the impulse to control things around us and change them to suit us. That's how we survived and it's wired in really deep.
Control hurts people sometimes, either on purpose or just out of ignorance. A lot, if people aren't careful, and compassionate. But it doesn't have to, and that's not all it does.
[Dillon believes in evil. But he doesn't know how to define or explain it. Some choices hurt people: that's empirical, that's easy.]