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A paradox arises only out of an ambiguity that deceives either unwittingly or by design.
People tended to avoid the humiliation of failure by joining the obviously winning side even against their own opinions.
The pleasantness of their company outweighed the regret of their passing. On the whole, then, it is better to experience what you experience now than not to.”
“Dors! You anger me when you speak like that. I would expect only a bigot to use those stereotypes.”
“Intuition! What’s that? Define it!” “Easily. Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.”
“How could they believe that?” said Dors. “They were part of the Empire, I presume.” “Yes, but Globalists insisted that all evidence to the effect that the Empire existed was either illusion or deliberate deceit, that Imperial emissaries and officials were Heliconians playing a part for some reason. They were absolutely immune to reason.” “And what happened?”
“It’s all but impossible to change people’s minds and hearts, Raych. It’s enough to try and perhaps eliminate the worst of the injustices.”
