"Individual strength has its limits. Multiple individuals form a society, and society acts for the benefit of its members. In essence, betraying the group means betraying oneself."
Theories resembling Social Contract Theory had long become commonplace on Earth, and they came with countless problems. No matter how good a theory or strategy was, too many loopholes and historical exceptions would constantly undermine its persuasiveness.
But for this world, for a world still steeped in Heroic Epics, it was a genuine dimensionality-reduction strike.
"They deliberately kept this world in a herd-like ideology to make herding and domestication easier. But from another angle, these are individuals with no antibodies because they have never encountered a virus."
The princesses in fairy tales were innocent and kind, perhaps only because they had been too well protected in their ivory towers. Put them in a setting twenty years later, and they would become vicious queens and stepmothers.
The collapse of ideologies and spiritual beliefs often came from the excessive purity of the past. The Orcs of this world harbored unease and confusion, and those old Heroic Epics could no longer soothe them.
So when an explanation, an ideology, appeared before them that seemed capable of answering everything, they had no resistance whatsoever.
It could be called propaganda, or brainwashing, but more than anything, it was education.
They had the need for it, and the outsiders fulfilled that need.
Before ideology, racial differences no longer mattered much. Compared to Earth Civilization, these alien Orcs were far too primitive. They had needs and confusion, yet before this, they could only charge mindlessly through the grand narratives of Heroic Epics and the Pantheon. Now, the outsiders had given them an answer.
If you did not occupy the battlefield of spiritual culture, someone else naturally would.
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