It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.

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Choice.

The deceptively simple single-syllable word that rules every human life, and the entirety of human history. Each choice made is a chisel-stroke that carves the world to be: and each discarded possibility peeled away is the seed of a world that could have been.

Each choice shapes the future.
Each choice is shaped by the human who makes it.
Each choice shapes the human who makes it.
And since their very first Choice at the dawn of time, humans have excelled at choosing wrong.

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The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common.
They don't alter their views to fit the facts.
They alter the facts to fit their view.
Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.