Existence breathes, and epochs pass, leaving Civilizations that become monuments, then crumble to memory, and are long forgotten when that breath comes again. In all these epochs, Infinity reigns supreme.
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Change is the most wanted and least enacted phenomenon across the arrangement of existence.
The beings who most sincerely want change are, as a general pattern across every civilization that has ever risen far enough to record its own contradictions, the beings least equipped to produce it. They want correctly. They diagnose accurately. They can describe with precision the specific shape of the suffering that surrounds them and articulate with genuine moral clarity why that suffering should not be permitted to continue.
And then they return to their lives and the suffering continues, because wanting and enacting are separated by a distance that sincerity alone has never been sufficient to cross.
The distance is power.
