“Until you can ignore your circumstances, and just do as you promise,” he says, “you’ll always be controlled by the world.”
And Mr. Whittier said, “This is why Moses led the tribes of Israel into the desert. . .” Because those people had lived for generations as slaves. They’d learned to be helpless. To create a race of masters from a race of slaves, Mr. Whittier said, to teach a controlled group of people how to create their own lives, Moses had to be an asshole.