You mean there comes a time when people aren't hopelessly confusing? ;-)
Hee! Well... I'm definitely more clueful now than I was as an adolescent, so less likely to wander about in a miserable haze of not understanding anything. Now, this developed theoretical knowledge, alas, is not always useful in practical situations...
I want the SK universe to be about the way social systems are imperfect, especially when they divide people into binary groups
Ah, ok. I think I see, and I agree this is unlikely to develop to the extent you want.
Information doesn't want to be free;
Okay, this sentence made me laugh out loud.
My real problem with Dag is not his reformer tendencies, because reformers in the right place at the right time really can change the world sometimes (though, I admit, rarely). My problem is that in my experience doing world-changing stuff without thinking it through beforehand and really figuring out the consequences (which Dag demonstrably doesn't do; I forget where but somewhere in Passage someone calls him on some half-baked idea) is liable to get you a whole lot of usually negative consequences you didn't plan for.
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Hee! Well... I'm definitely more clueful now than I was as an adolescent, so less likely to wander about in a miserable haze of not understanding anything. Now, this developed theoretical knowledge, alas, is not always useful in practical situations...
I want the SK universe to be about the way social systems are imperfect, especially when they divide people into binary groups
Ah, ok. I think I see, and I agree this is unlikely to develop to the extent you want.
Information doesn't want to be free;
Okay, this sentence made me laugh out loud.
My real problem with Dag is not his reformer tendencies, because reformers in the right place at the right time really can change the world sometimes (though, I admit, rarely). My problem is that in my experience doing world-changing stuff without thinking it through beforehand and really figuring out the consequences (which Dag demonstrably doesn't do; I forget where but somewhere in Passage someone calls him on some half-baked idea) is liable to get you a whole lot of usually negative consequences you didn't plan for.