Fourty-seventh labyrinth

[lord_wizard]

[The afternoon finds Felix sitting in the coffee bar outside of the Lux, dressed in a rather ostentatious outfit left over from the castle's Diwali celebration, as if to call attention to himself. He's commandeered a small two-person table topped with a chess board, though the game he's about to play is a little more subtle.

The Peace Patrol meeting was a disaster and everyone in that room knew it. What galled him more was not the lack of any proper decision-making, but the fact that so many people had given up on it. They could disagree with the direction of the conversation all they wanted, but to quit the field before any decision was reached seemed both stupid and cowardly. He could admit he wasn't terribly invested in the fates of the three remaining prisoners, but it irritated him a little that they were sitting down there mostly for no other reason than the fact that nobody knew what to do with them. It was them that put those men down there - so what right did they have to wash their hands of them now?

Felix himself naturally baulked at authority, but that did not mean he didn't see the need for it. Especially here.

He wasn't about to go campaigning, but the question had laid in his mind ever since that day, festering along with his frustration. He picks up the coal-dark king piece, twitching it between his fingers with a sigh. When he speaks, however, it is light and brightly conversational]

Leadership is a funny thing.

There is a lot of talk about the qualities that make a leader - that it is something one is born to do rather than taught. Charisma can go a long way to gathering people to your side, but without the proper backing, such movements are more often rebellions and cults that die out like so many sparks. 

Governments, on the other hand, are not so much about the people who make them up but the fact they are simply a more powerful force than any one man. The men and woman that make it up are born to it in the respect that they tend to fall within the appropriate class, and few people tend to question their right to make decisions for the country as a whole. It simply is.

It is always imperfect, but in some respects it is preferable to have a small group of people quarreling amongst themselves for the sake of the people, rather than the entire population doing so themselves. Things get done in this manner.

But such things have to be set in motion, and there I suppose, we are mired too deeply in doubt to ever gain that momentum ourselves.

Were it that we could have such a guiding hand...someone to step and say, 'this is how things will be'? How many of you would prefer such a thing to uncertainty and stagnation?

((Open via journal and in person - come chat or maybe even challenge him to some chess if that is your fancy!))

Comments

[encryptedlock]

[written]

Not me. Show me a government that doesn't screw its people and I might think twice, but as far as I've seen there is no such thing.

dictated forever

[lord_wizard]

Do you really believe every government is corrupt?

[encryptedlock]

I'm saying that's my experience. Granted, the people here come from a hundred different worlds, so maybe someone has better luck.

The odds are against us, though.

[cantacquityou]

[The castle had Diwali?! Where the Hell was I?!? Oh yeah. Nonexistent.]

[Anyway. Did someone MF-ing say 'Chess?' You practically said my name, here. And so here's Edgeworth, his arms crossed nearby, and watching you mingle with that chess set of yours.]


...Very vaguely put, such a 'government' that you described sounds quite a bit like an autocratic one.

[lord_wizard]

[Felix glances over his shoulder but otherwise doesn't seemed fazed by the comment, his fingers still turning the chess piece end over end]

Vagueness suits my purposes, in this case. That could be one interpretation. There are others. I myself am used to something a little more balanced, but it's the experience of others I am after.

[cantacquityou]

[Wth the icons look the same He studies the chess board, looking for patterns.]


...Experience? In terms of...?

[cheerupemoborg]

There are a lot of things to consider, but with the right direction?

I think it could work.

[lord_wizard]

The 'right direction' is a relative term. A group would be preferable to an individual, considering how things work here.

What sort of direction would appeal to you?

[cheerupemoborg]

A direction that would - hopefully - lead us to better understand Paradisa, and hopefully escape it.

[deterrence]

[she doesn't reply immediately. Instead, she watches others' responses when they come in, considers her...somewhat disastrous term in office, as well as the few extra experiences left over from last July -- of a person with her name and face, who'd risen to power though substantial use of force]

A question, if I may. How would you expect this government to be formed?

[lord_wizard]

It's more a hypothetical question, so you'll have to forgive me for not contemplating the particulars. And, it depends on the tastes of the people. Indeed, how does any form of aristocracy rise to power? Obviously money isn't power here. I wouldn't suggest anything violent, but if we could get even a small group of people to get together and agree on a few things, you would be surprised what people will agree to in order to not get their hands dirty.

Dictated forever

[mal_addict]

[Ugh, Felix she really does not like you]

At least with uncertainty and stagnation I know I can take care of myself and those I care about without someone deciding that what's best for many should override everything else.

[lord_wizard]

[He doesn't like you either, quitter :|]

Why shouldn't it, when the need arises? Isn't it better to have the whole population running around at cross-purposes like so many chickens?

dictated

[wilder]

[Born into it? Really?]

Ohhh lemme guess, you're a noble.

dictated forever

[lord_wizard]

[It's probably a good thing you can't see his face]

That's correct.

Dictated

[thetrudger]

[Geoff isn't sure what he wants to say as he listens to Felix speak. He just knows he wants to say something.]

I have been led all my life. Such a thing would not trouble me.

forever <3

[lord_wizard]

It's not as terrible as some people make it out to be. As long as there is the option of choice.

...How are you, Geoff?

Dictated... for now. c:

[wizard_redfive]

Feeling contemplative, are we?

[lord_wizard]

Something like that.

[psych0p0mps]

well i would probably just do whatever i want anyway
but thats just me

[lord_wizard]

[Slightly amused] You're likely not the only one.

dictated;

[walkinthruwalls]

I've found it hard getting people to training.

[lord_wizard]

And getting them to vote on a leader would be even harder...?

[fourtythird]

Sounds like you've got a bit of a problem. [ She's too new to know what ]

[lord_wizard]

[He has multitudes of problems, this is just one]

It's more everyone's problem than just time, the issue is getting them to see that.