You make me remember all those wonderful things I used to have the time to read up on, you know. And I feel somewhat ashamed to be relying on things I’m remembering from at least ten years ago really. *waves hand* Ra was a giant dung beetle, he could have probably made good use of their remains at least. But of course I’m being flippant now.
The key point about Dietrich’s personal stagnation is that he seems to go about triggering change in others. Esther and Ion for example most probably change with him as the catalyst. Dietrich really is entrenched in his set behaviour, isn’t he? And then he works so tirelessly to pull Esther back into hers though she constantly resists. That would be quite the take on it: Rosencreutz as Order gone wrong. Dietrich as the young champion of Order falling into stagnation, Isaak the previous one who has already sunk into absolute stagnation, Radu: stagnation disguised as Chaos, even Helga as straightforward progression frittered away in useless pursuits. I suppose Cain then becomes Arioch , Duke of Hell having come along and corrupted all these would be champions of Order. But coming back to the point, as you say, at least Dietrich’s stagnation doesn’t cripple an entire race. Though perhaps while Süleyman may have meant it in the less existential sense perhaps he did at least notice something inherently wrong with Seth that was only outwardly shown by her unaging nature. She doesn’t change after all, doesn’t age, doesn’t die and his calling her a monster because of it only begins to touch on just how monstrous she really is. Seth is perfectly content stagnation and a complete mockery of everything that Order’s straightforward progression is meant to stand for. She’s like Leto II in that sense; her decisions trap an entire race, forcing them along the path that she chooses. In which case things like the Orden and perhaps to focus; Dietrich might become the truest of Machiavellian principles, that the ends justify the means which comes right back round to Eris kick-starting human progression once again through war. Which also reflects on Seth’s not meaning to cause any harm. It doesn’t matter what her intentions were; only what she’s become in the process because while she won’t destroy the world with a bang, she will lead them down the slow road to obliteration anyway which is just as bad. “This is the way the world ends; Not with a bang but a whimper.” To quote the overused T.S. Eliot line. Though Seth seems to sort to quote The old lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori to fall back on Wilfred Owen instead.
At which point I’ll stop because I really am utterly drunk and rambling again.
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*waves hand* Ra was a giant dung beetle, he could have probably made good use of their remains at least. But of course I’m being flippant now.
The key point about Dietrich’s personal stagnation is that he seems to go about triggering change in others. Esther and Ion for example most probably change with him as the catalyst. Dietrich really is entrenched in his set behaviour, isn’t he? And then he works so tirelessly to pull Esther back into hers though she constantly resists. That would be quite the take on it: Rosencreutz as Order gone wrong. Dietrich as the young champion of Order falling into stagnation, Isaak the previous one who has already sunk into absolute stagnation, Radu: stagnation disguised as Chaos, even Helga as straightforward progression frittered away in useless pursuits. I suppose Cain then becomes Arioch , Duke of Hell having come along and corrupted all these would be champions of Order.
But coming back to the point, as you say, at least Dietrich’s stagnation doesn’t cripple an entire race. Though perhaps while Süleyman may have meant it in the less existential sense perhaps he did at least notice something inherently wrong with Seth that was only outwardly shown by her unaging nature. She doesn’t change after all, doesn’t age, doesn’t die and his calling her a monster because of it only begins to touch on just how monstrous she really is. Seth is perfectly content stagnation and a complete mockery of everything that Order’s straightforward progression is meant to stand for. She’s like Leto II in that sense; her decisions trap an entire race, forcing them along the path that she chooses. In which case things like the Orden and perhaps to focus; Dietrich might become the truest of Machiavellian principles, that the ends justify the means which comes right back round to Eris kick-starting human progression once again through war. Which also reflects on Seth’s not meaning to cause any harm. It doesn’t matter what her intentions were; only what she’s become in the process because while she won’t destroy the world with a bang, she will lead them down the slow road to obliteration anyway which is just as bad.
“This is the way the world ends; Not with a bang but a whimper.”
To quote the overused T.S. Eliot line. Though Seth seems to sort to quote The old lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori to fall back on Wilfred Owen instead.
At which point I’ll stop because I really am utterly drunk and rambling again.