Some quotes:
From Bakker's The Thousandfold Thought, Book 3 of the Prince of Nothing
“You understood that when men stop bowing, the emperor ceases to rule, that when the whips are thrown into the river, the slave ceases to serve. For an infant to be an emperor or a slave or a merchant or a whore or a general or whatever, those about him must act accordingly. And Men act as they believe. “You saw them, in their thousands, spread across the world in great hierarchies, the actions of each exquisitely attuned to the expectations of others. The identity of Men, you discovered, was determined by the beliefs, the assumptions, of others. This is what makes them emperors or slaves … Not their gods. Not their blood".
Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.
From Bakker's The Thousandfold Thought, Book 3 of the Prince of Nothing
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