An outsider and amateur would be easier for you to manipulate, yet you support the consummate professional who clearly has other connections to play. It sounds like you're interested in making things harder for yourself.
Regardless, you won't have to persuade me. If you wish me to pay him compliments, I'll do it. How effective it will be against a stone fortress of idealists remains to be seen.
Have you considered that I'm interested in having leverage, not controlling someone outright? There's a difference.
But you're right. The others are worrisome. I wouldn't say it's idealism, not inherently. They just like feeling like what they believe is true. Even if it's not. It's egotism.
I'm not interested in being in complete control. I didn't think I needed to spell that out any further.
[Though this is a side effect of going home and returning. He's far more squeamish about puppeting someone else these days. He'll still pester someone into moving, but he has always enjoyed seeing what he could motivate someone to do of their own free will. Now it's a matter of principle to ensure that happens.]
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Regardless, you won't have to persuade me. If you wish me to pay him compliments, I'll do it. How effective it will be against a stone fortress of idealists remains to be seen.
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But you're right. The others are worrisome. I wouldn't say it's idealism, not inherently. They just like feeling like what they believe is true. Even if it's not. It's egotism.
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[ more interesting than his apt assessment of the Displaced en masse ]
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[Though this is a side effect of going home and returning. He's far more squeamish about puppeting someone else these days. He'll still pester someone into moving, but he has always enjoyed seeing what he could motivate someone to do of their own free will. Now it's a matter of principle to ensure that happens.]