Spoken by the immortal Sphinx, a voice of wisdom in the series.
“I’d say you have only to do what’s within your power as one person. I suppose it’s probably harder to conceptualize when you haven’t literally watched pyramids being constructed, for instance, but nevertheless — there’s a collective imagination that is gradually served by individual efforts. Great works that are quite impossible by yourself, but also impossible without you.
“As people go, so do societies. Like anything meaningful, it may not always feel like much in the moment, but then suddenly you’ve got the future on your hands! And you’ll never have as much as in the future, but by extension you’ll always have more than in the past, in some regard at least. More to build on, more examples, more… pyramids, certainly.”
Subnormality, my favorite webcomic, on collective effort:
Spoken by the immortal Sphinx, a voice of wisdom in the series.