People will easily believe that Benedetta's supporters organized this because the Chantry is full of this. You suggested that mine was not the only plot. I'm sure it is not. Like any system that purports to rule and control, the Chantry is subject to the poison of ambition, and greed, and gain.
A blow will expose this more plainly. People will see the Chantry for what it is. They will be given the opportunity to understand that the Chantry's power comes from nothing. That their power, the power of the people, is worth more, and carries more weight--and that the Chantry would do well to remember that.
Then Benedetta's supporters are implicated in her death. Benedetta's claim is weakened. The powers that operate the Chantry--the power-hungry, the conniving, those angling for position and status, ignorant of what the people need--their true nature is revealed.
[And, full of frustrated resignation, he has to admit:]
Chaos is necessary. The usual systems and governance has to be shaken for the people to find their opportunity. If the guiding hand of the Chantry is still in place, it will be relied on.
Encouragement, [and it sounds grudging, but he means it, it's not something he's good at, that's all,] will be needed. The right ideas given to the right people and the right actions to take next. But there has to be chaos. Right now, the people see the Chantry as a force that cannot be shaken, or questioned. We must shatter that. Peel back its face to show them that it is a fallible institution, made up of people and only people--and that they, the people--the larger body, disenfranchised, kept down--have just as much power within them. The force that can be wielded, if they can only see it.
Because by all rights, it should be the people that find it. Taught to find it, and create it, and embrace what they create. If another system replaces the one that has been slain, it will be the same thing again. Over and over again.
[Shut up is the easy answer. And Nikos wants, badly, to give it, just to stop this. His idealism is bitterly veined. He looks down into his cup of wine, at the dregs down at the bottom.]
There must be people.
[--He says, eventually.]
Individuals. Not a whole. And people can be taught to see the system, and what it does. Education takes time, is the problem. And some might willfully refuse to see. Some might blind themselves on purpose.
Will she actually do any of that, or will this be an amusing distraction to play at for a few months. One to be bragged about at lunches. "That time I drew incendiary pictures for the poor to look at."
I'd rather have a monkey paint the pamphlets in shit.
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Date: 2019-04-10 03:12 am (UTC)A blow will expose this more plainly. People will see the Chantry for what it is. They will be given the opportunity to understand that the Chantry's power comes from nothing. That their power, the power of the people, is worth more, and carries more weight--and that the Chantry would do well to remember that.
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Date: 2019-04-11 12:38 am (UTC)[ She gnaws a little on her lower lip. ]
What comes after?
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Date: 2019-04-11 03:20 am (UTC)What?
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Date: 2019-04-11 12:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-04-11 05:29 pm (UTC)[And, full of frustrated resignation, he has to admit:]
It is nothing that happens overnight.
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Date: 2019-04-11 11:45 pm (UTC)[ A breath. ]
It seems like this plan creates chaos. And it seems like we ought to have...a better way to make that chaos go our way.
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Date: 2019-04-12 04:59 pm (UTC)Encouragement, [and it sounds grudging, but he means it, it's not something he's good at, that's all,] will be needed. The right ideas given to the right people and the right actions to take next. But there has to be chaos. Right now, the people see the Chantry as a force that cannot be shaken, or questioned. We must shatter that. Peel back its face to show them that it is a fallible institution, made up of people and only people--and that they, the people--the larger body, disenfranchised, kept down--have just as much power within them. The force that can be wielded, if they can only see it.
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Date: 2019-04-12 11:53 pm (UTC)I see.
[ And she does. Reluctantly. But it...all makes a lot of sense. ]
If the Chantry came crumbling down - entirely - what would happen?
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Date: 2019-04-13 02:16 am (UTC)[Which is not entirely useful, so--]
There will be space that will need to be occupied. And quickly. The world has mostly been known with the Chantry in it. There isn't precedent.
So if you have any clever ideas, you can implement them to your heart's content.
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Date: 2019-04-13 02:19 am (UTC)[ A little sigh. Anyway. ]
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Date: 2019-04-13 11:05 pm (UTC)Because by all rights, it should be the people that find it. Taught to find it, and create it, and embrace what they create. If another system replaces the one that has been slain, it will be the same thing again. Over and over again.
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Date: 2019-04-14 01:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-04-14 01:59 am (UTC)There must be people.
[--He says, eventually.]
Individuals. Not a whole. And people can be taught to see the system, and what it does. Education takes time, is the problem. And some might willfully refuse to see. Some might blind themselves on purpose.
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Date: 2019-04-14 02:01 am (UTC)[ She pauses; then, when she speaks again, she sounds more certain. ]
Then we should start laying the groundwork now. We should start educating people now.
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Date: 2019-04-15 12:57 am (UTC)But he can't be honest, so, dryly--]
Well, there's the pamphlets.
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Date: 2019-04-15 02:46 am (UTC)Too bad about all that illiteracy, isn't it.
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Date: 2019-04-15 04:21 pm (UTC)Any good at drawing?
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Date: 2019-04-15 08:35 pm (UTC)You know who's quite good, though, is Alexandrie.
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Date: 2019-04-16 03:14 am (UTC)I'd rather have a monkey paint the pamphlets in shit.
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