Realistic, non-ideological built-world will have >1 sages who are unreliable even with respect to their own ideologies. Eg. Game of Thrones?
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your term at logical extreme is scenarios in scenario planning. That's bread and butter futurism.
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that's a bit unfair. They're just being humanist: using external stuff to probe their sense of humanism rather than world.
I don't know about "responsibilities" but I do like an external locus of interest instead of say, redemption ad nauseum
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Not a great example, given the preponderance of ideology-driven magic that actually works in GoT.
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