by Alex Birch
Fate, if you look at it from an analytic perspective, is pretty much a dead thesis. If you interpret it to mean that whatever happens, (inevitably) happens, you haven't contributed with any significant information. However I act, when we look back on it, we can always say that "that's how it had to happen." If you'd write it down mathematically it'd look like this:
A = A
Obviously such a vital concept for ancient societies and cultures around the world cannot possibly just mean that events take place, period. It wants to address something else. When Julius Caesar threw the dice and repeated that he'd thrown the dice, he was trying to emphasize something beyond mere events. A decision had been made and no one could change it.
Before civilization as we know it, people were much more aware of their ruthless environment. Fate was probably introduced as a way of communicating that no one could change much of what was going on in life. Death, diseases, old age, storms and wars. All of it beyond the individual's power. And still it's all part of life. At that point you come to accept certain conditions in life, maybe even try to embrace them (compare with Nietzsche's philosophy).
Fate is therefore a two-sided coin. On the one hand it teaches us to accept the limitations of human existence. We can't do much about death, age or hunger. It's all part of our natural cycle. On the other hand it seems to suggest things happen anyway, so why bother doing anything about them? This is a negative attitude, one that Corrupt is constantly waging war against. Learning to accept the powers too great for you is part of growing up--but using those conditions to your own advantage and creating greatness out of life, that is a task only worthy real men and women.
Learn to accept--love--what is necessary, and embrace that which is possible.