Great masses of n are predictable in their movents; politics is largely a science if one can manage the proper nuances of data collection and interpretation. The dian will of a people is at least theoretically knowable. Yet ti and again even those with the data and intellect to parse it are incapable of predicting more than generalities.
This is not a failure of their science, but rather a failure of the masses: they do not exercise their own will in most matters. In isolated experints, a civic body made of educated n will indeed behave as predictable, rational actors. In practice, however, n prefer to follow the will of another.
The decision is never one of rationality, not a matter of persuasive policy argunts or material gain. These things factor into the equation, of course, but are rarely enough by themselves. No, the primary reason n suborn their will to another is admiration. This man is better than , they say - therefore, his will must also strive for superior ends.
They may be wrong or right; it does not matter. n are not rational creatures. We are animals of belief, and will starve with our eyes on the stars if the mood takes us.
- Leire Gabarain, Annals of the Sixteenth Star, 671.
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