11-25-2017, 12:00 AM
I don't think it has to be entirely coercive. People probably ASKED to be citizens, at first. It's very possible that they paid a high price for it, even. But the chains solidified over time until the next generation actually *believed* all the small compromises and petty white lies, until sooner or later maybe the lies weren't so petty anymore. Sooner or later the compromises that let us interact meaningfully and work together on projects and just generally get along without killing each other become something else, whole stories, whole books, whole LAW SCHOOLS even, to justify the ruling class continuing to rule and the servant class continuing to serve.
But I digress...
It could also be a lot like sitting down to play a videogame and it turns out the videogame is so much fun you never get back up again.
I also don't know if INTENT can be responsible for everything that "occurs", now that I think about it. I could also say responsible for everything we experience. "occurs" seems to give it some measure of reality, like it occurred "for real" and not in an MMORPG.
For the uninitiated, that is a "Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game". We experience both, both occur. INTENT both reveals AND conceals, evidently.
But I digress...
It could also be a lot like sitting down to play a videogame and it turns out the videogame is so much fun you never get back up again.
I also don't know if INTENT can be responsible for everything that "occurs", now that I think about it. I could also say responsible for everything we experience. "occurs" seems to give it some measure of reality, like it occurred "for real" and not in an MMORPG.
For the uninitiated, that is a "Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game". We experience both, both occur. INTENT both reveals AND conceals, evidently.