The Hero Mythology

Part of the ethic that defines the proper moral endeavor is not to advance yourself at the expense of the entire community. So if you're fortunate enough so that you can rise in in authority and power and competence within the confines of a community, you still have an obligation to maintain it. That's obvious, right? Because if people didn't do that, after a couple of generations, the whole thing would fall apart. It's reasonable tostrengthen the game that you're winning. And so that's another thing, because that also describes the ethic that should allow you to be an active member of the community around which that that gathers around that centre....