Closed Roads

aaron · 01 Jan 2011, 04:11 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: aaronsingleton at gmail.com (aaron)
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 23:11:32 -0500
Subject: (urth) Closed Roads
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Closing the roads makes it easier to keep people out of certain areas--
that's the obvious reason for me.  Otherwise, just to discourage travel I
suppose.

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:

> On 12/31/2010 6:54 PM, Son of Witz wrote:
>
>> I think I just had Gestalt-O-Vision with the "Closed roads"
>> What the hell is the purpose of the closed roads?
>>
>> The closed roads seem to represent how there is no growth, only
>> stagnation. No new paths.  Society's dead body with stalled arteries.  works
>> for me at least.
>>
>
> The old Autarch says they closed the roads to paralyze the social order. I
> assume this means that not being free to travel easily, the bulk of the
> people are stuck with their lot.
>
> It doesn't exactly represent stagnation or death so much as the only stable
> solution that has been found; he lists the other alternatives that suck
> more.
>
>
> --
> Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
> Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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Aaron Singleton
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