Each year new diseases appear, more and more crops are lost due to pests, and the Underworlds are completely out of control. As well as all this, the chanting of the hymns of the Law is losing its power to influence the laws of nature. Limpid, crystalline, irresistible, he has transcended time. Gervin paused and kept eye contact with me for a moment. A number of measures could have been taken, and could still be taken, but no one dares to deviate from established rules.
Sleepers hate change.
And there are influential people with vested interests who oppose any change because it would mean a drastic loss of power for them. For more than twenty years I have been prophesying that the present course of events is pure folly. When I speak, people often believe what I say, but taking action would result in too much hardship. They prefer to keep sleeping and let fate overtake them and this they will do until the very end. As Gervin held eye contact with a living wall , I studied the way he was twinging his beard very carefully.