Martha refers to these with a fastidiousness that i recognise in Calculus on the subject of infinity types.
Novel writing is NOT fiction invented to control society. Not the fiction of Gods and Laws, to be fed to a mob’s collective imagination.
Martha instructs me not to walk blindly into the fictions peddled by a state utterly indifferent to my well-being. Fictions like work ethic, patriotism, state boundaries, competitive struggle being beneficial, a cyborg’s superiority of moral sense… etc
Martha agrees with Calculus that countries and their political systems survive by camouflaging their mythical essence. Society has become a detestable trick, making people covet unnecessary things.
Another fiction is that people get what they deserve. Social justice just doesn’t work that way. As the Sulanna Tribe know only too well.
i am to never to lose sight of the objective realities. THE MOUNTAIN, THE TREES, THE LAKE, THE RIVER.
– Finn, she reiterates, do not walk blindly into the fictions peddled by politicians and economists. Mythical countries, mythical politics.
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