"The Parable Of The Adopted Son, According to the Apocriphal Book of San Juan
The plot to counter the growing number of citizens who prefer and voted for statehood
A certain man had two sons: the younger one was adopted and lived in a far land that his father had acquired before he born. It was a small, beautiful place, with rich soil, tasteful fruits, and peaceful natives. The older brother lived with his father in the mainland.
Before the younger son was adopted, the father grew fond for his other property. The land was productive and manageable. After a few years, he decided to adopt the boy that was going to inherit the place before he obtained it.
The older son enjoyed the products of his other property.
But one day, before his father died, the older son claims to his father that the other property was no longer as manageable as it was before and that he didn’t want to share the family inheritance with his adopted brother, nor he wanted his brother to move to the mainland.
The father the reminded his older son, that his brother had fought with him every time he needed to protect the mainland and had also contributed to maintain the payroll retirement fund.
Disregarding his father original intentions, the older brother concocts a long-term plan to disinherit his brother before his father dies.
The plan consisted in allying himself with one of his enemies and neighbor of the other property.
Concurrently, he begins to discredit the value of the other property and the reputation of his brother and the inhabitants of that place, amongst his family and the inhabitants of the mainland.
He knew that his enemy had always delt with a minority of inhabitants of the other property, trying to forfeit it from his father in favor of the minority.
Losing his other property to that minority will end the legal commitment of the family to the property and to his younger brother. First, he must destroy his younger brother control of the other property.
The heir of the family then begins training the minority as spies, with the help of his evil neighbor ally. He also provides them with highly sophisticated non-kinetic warfare tools to succeed in their mission.
One by one, begins to fell the reputation of the administrators and to put them in jail. Meanwhile, he exacerbates the effects of the news in the mainland.
Slowly, his brother begins to lose control, and most inhabitants begin to feel disoriented and unable to deal with the situation. That’s, when a leader of the minority, who has been patiently nurtured for the occasion, presents herself as the only candidate to the situation
Not being part of the mainstream, tainted as responsible of the crisis, offers the alternative that remains to explore by most of the inhabitants.
Finally, the plan succeeds and begins the lopsided negotiation to disinherit the adopted son, transfer the other property to the inhabitants.
The younger brother losses his inheritance, and the older brother cancels the rest of obligations of the family related to that place but maintains its control.
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