In City 45 there are only some good men, but they're visible to the people. Regardless of their faults and shortcomings there is no doubt that the things they do have a lasting effect. The initiative to help others from a position of privilege and power in a tyrannical regime is notable in my mind, its important. It represents a hope for humanity that transcends civilization and that is freedom. Liberation of mind, body and spirit. It is my view now that Doctor Corbin Mitchell had a great vision for this city, but his absence explains itself. A liberated mind cannot exist in the Union, there is no compromise. With him gone can we really expect funding from the City Administration? While Dr. Michael Johanason muscles people into registering with the Civil Business Foundation to get a twenty five percent tax? I don't think so. They're going to suck us dry of even things they themselves have plenty of and the ability to manufacture. There is no point in believing in the Union, as a 'prole' in Corbin's words, there is no benefit to us. We're told of our 'benefactors' but I can't swallow the pill anymore. I can't eat this, I can't take it. I won't. I am a man.
I no longer believe in the Union, the collective or citizenship. I believe in a republic. I believe I will forge a republic from the needs and abilities of those who have gone through the canals. I will assign my dearest friend, Terrance Hume to the task of gathering the 'proletariat' and inviting them to a life as pilgrims within a small society of constitutionally endowed free men. I see us as plebes and where we go there will be no patricians. No emperor.
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