inthemaking

The two men squat on their hams and the women and children listen. Here is the node, you who hate change and fear revolution. Keep these two squattering men apart; make them hate, fear, suspect each other. Here is the anlage of the thing you fear. This is the zygote. For here "I lost my land"  is changed; a cell is split and from its splittering grows the thing you hate - "We lost our land". The danger is here, for two are not as lonely and perplexed as one. And from this "we" there grows a still more dangerous thing: "I have a little food" plus "I have none". If from this problem the sum is "We have little food" the thing is on its way, the movement has direction. Only a little multiplication now, and this land, this tractor are ours. 

- Steinbeck