Well, yes, obviously, ( that's nothing gwenaëlle's going to argue, the idea of being remembered for anything brings her out in hives, ) but that isn't how people work. You can't collectively make everyone in the world not care about other people without making the world worse, probably.
But that's—we don't have to focus on it. No one fucking focuses on it. ( the cussing is pure punctuation, at this point; she sounds rueful, if anything. she knows no one cares about this. she doesn't for a moment believe kitty is listening to her because she thinks this matters. ) It's not a thing that we make happen, it's natural, it's how people are, it's what happens. Whole religions form because people love a good fucking story. That's how ideas survive, people are how, people remember what other people taught them, they remember things that they saw, they act on those things. Someone's brave so a hundred other people are brave, too. The Herald died, and people kept coming to the Inquisition to fight because they had a symbol when the Inquisition didn't have much more than that. And they became what the Inquisition has.
I'm not arguing that it's important to do, or even that every single person has to care about it, it's just...something that's worth understanding, because it's better if someone does. If someone's thinking about it. And paying attention to it. If it's literally only me, that's fine, but just because it isn't what you're doing doesn't mean it isn't important. I can't do the things you do, either.
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Date: 2018-11-23 08:09 am (UTC)But that's—we don't have to focus on it. No one fucking focuses on it. ( the cussing is pure punctuation, at this point; she sounds rueful, if anything. she knows no one cares about this. she doesn't for a moment believe kitty is listening to her because she thinks this matters. ) It's not a thing that we make happen, it's natural, it's how people are, it's what happens. Whole religions form because people love a good fucking story. That's how ideas survive, people are how, people remember what other people taught them, they remember things that they saw, they act on those things. Someone's brave so a hundred other people are brave, too. The Herald died, and people kept coming to the Inquisition to fight because they had a symbol when the Inquisition didn't have much more than that. And they became what the Inquisition has.
I'm not arguing that it's important to do, or even that every single person has to care about it, it's just...something that's worth understanding, because it's better if someone does. If someone's thinking about it. And paying attention to it. If it's literally only me, that's fine, but just because it isn't what you're doing doesn't mean it isn't important. I can't do the things you do, either.