To be a people, and not a state is to have one's own language of virtue. But, what of a people of linguists. In Ishmael, Quinn suggests that the story of first sin in the Bible is a story that originates from a leaver (primitive) society explaining what had gone wrong to make takers (civilized); that this leaver story was later appropriated by a taker people. If so what of a people of translators, to re tell the civilized worlds stories into earth first stories.
Stories are important, a people needs its story. And the story must extend through time, not the the history but the future of the people. Where they came from, what they are doing, and why they are doing it.
A New People should come up, but not one with a story that drowns out the preceding stories, but one that orchestrates them. It will be simplist for me to just tell the story in my next post.
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