...basically hopelessly confused by life and other people, and generally knows it. Since this was a major component of the way I felt as a kid/adolescent...
You mean there comes a time when people aren't hopelessly confusing? ;-)
Wait, you don't think we'll get those things, or that we will?
I don't think we'll get them. Or we'll get some, but not all. I want the SK universe to be about the way social systems are imperfect, especially when they divide people into binary groups (Farmers/Lakewalkers, adult/child, single/married, childless/parent), but I don't think that's quite what LMB's doing. Does that make any sense? I want Dag and Fawn to come out of the series better people for their experiences. I think that will happen somewhat, but not in the directions that would make me really happy.
...while appealing to my open-source "information wants to be free!"
Information doesn't want to be free; information wants to be pirated achieve the lowest available energy state. [/cynic] People want information to be free, but there's a time and effort investment in creating usable information, so it's only ever going to get very cheap. The time cost of a pop-up ad, say. Sorry, rant mode on there; it's been middling-tough day ruined by summer temps and virtue vs pizza. (Virtue won. Talk about your Pyrrhic victories.)
Dag gets points for trying, but his pioneering spirit is likely to be sorely tried by not one, but two societies set against his message. Dag the reformer and expat is in for a really rough time.
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Date: 2008-07-18 03:23 am (UTC)You mean there comes a time when people aren't hopelessly confusing? ;-)
Wait, you don't think we'll get those things, or that we will?
I don't think we'll get them. Or we'll get some, but not all. I want the SK universe to be about the way social systems are imperfect, especially when they divide people into binary groups (Farmers/Lakewalkers, adult/child, single/married, childless/parent), but I don't think that's quite what LMB's doing. Does that make any sense? I want Dag and Fawn to come out of the series better people for their experiences. I think that will happen somewhat, but not in the directions that would make me really happy.
...while appealing to my open-source "information wants to be free!"
Information doesn't want to be free; information wants to
be piratedachieve the lowest available energy state. [/cynic] People want information to be free, but there's a time and effort investment in creating usable information, so it's only ever going to get very cheap. The time cost of a pop-up ad, say. Sorry, rant mode on there; it's been middling-tough day ruined by summer temps and virtue vs pizza. (Virtue won. Talk about your Pyrrhic victories.)Dag gets points for trying, but his pioneering spirit is likely to be sorely tried by not one, but two societies set against his message. Dag the reformer and expat is in for a really rough time.