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Originally Posted by yossarian  Since darkworking is the path towards separation I don't really see how he will find unity like you explain.
The other thing which you didn't really touch on is power. How is his power relationship with the rest of the world?
Certainly, as a darkworker, he wants to learn how to control people and get them to do what he thinks is best? If he gained power over many people, couldn't he use them to further his own understanding of the universe?
The guy you are talking about seems like he has no social presence at all. You don't really explain how he relates to people.
What does he do against enemies who try to bring him down?
How does he treat people who refuse his requests?
If he has billions of dollars and is very powerful, why not take more control of humanity to achieve greater aims?
Imagine, he could explore outer space. There are so many people sitting around idly, he could take power and unite them in a cause.
Since he wanted to learn through experience, did he try crime? Did he ever murder anyone? Maybe he could try out genocide?
What about eugenics? Surely he sees the wisdom in passing on his good genes as much as possible, and the genes of other fit individuals, while stopping those who are unfit from contaminating the gene pool.
Also a pure vegan diet is simply not optimal. Humans need a small amount of animal products at minimum - Vitamin B12 for instance. If you're only interested in health you won't be a strict vegan.
I guess it just seems to me like you're limiting your darkworker. His options are so much wider, but you restrain him, keeping him within socially acceptible boundaries when he is so powerful and is free to roam.
Surely such an intelligent billionaire can make himself above the law.
Why doesn't he strive for absolute freedom and power? And if he has that power, why not use it?
Why doesn't he reshape the world to be more palatable to his tastes? Surely he has the wealth needed to mobilize nations.
What darkworker, if sufficiently powerful, wouldn't make himself Dictator of Earth? Is that not supreme power and freedom? |
Yes he could do all these things, but if you think better you will realize that all of these things, even with not very good means, ultimately are good things.
Imagine if he controlled the entire earth. Have you seen a government that treats his people badly last long? Of course not. Therefore he would obviously please his people and punish the opposers in order to maintain power. He would end up creating political and economical oneness, saving the world from constant wars that kill much more people than his punishments would have killed.
And in the long run, once the world is united, it would develop economically and technologically more quickly than now with all these differences, and since more riches would be created, there wouldnt be millions of persons per year dying from hungry, and all the lives wasted in the wars that were needed to create world oneness would eventually be compensated by many times by the lives saved from death of lack of food and proper medical treatments.
Now imagine this scenario being accomplished by a lightworker. Its possible isnt it? He also thought about all of the benefits for the world in the long run and decided he was willing to pay the price with precious humans lives wasted in the wars needed to create the world oneness. Maybe a bit less persons would die in the proccess since he would rather not kill the opposers but rather arrest them, even though war between nations would be impossible to avoid. But in the end the result would be the same, and only a fraction of human lives more would be saved than in the darkworker scenario.
What changes is the reason. One is for power the other is for the benefit of the whole. The results are the same. There's the balance.