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David Stockhoff · 11 Apr 2013, 21:15
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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:15:24 -0400 Subject: (urth) =?utf-8?q?=EF=BB=BFfifth_head_owlet-_wolf=E2=80=8F?= In-Reply-To: <1365713268.7653.YahooMailNeo at web124504.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <BLU175-W349B43A4C3E0B2095E79EECFC00 at phx.gbl> <1365713268.7653.YahooMailNeo at web124504.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <516727EC.4030508 at verizon.net> It's a fair question. I think it's fairly normal, however, to be concerned about freeloaders and/or (de)motivation when imagining the ideal society. Once you assume that you know what the best people are like, the worst people become clearer. A related question is whether fairies are bumbling simpletons who can't tie a knot, or work with iron, or brave warriors of preternatural skill. Or both (or else one set are changelings, or hobbits). I guess it depends on the purpose you have for them. On 4/11/2013 4:47 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote: > "Industrious" and "productive" are interesting words to use there. Wolfe has used weak pseduo-human parasites who live by their deceptive abilities as figures of horror in 5HoC and BotSS, and maybe TWK (the Aelfr, though they're not that horrible). Is there political and economic significance in this? > > Jerry Friedman > > >> >> ________________________________ >> >> From: Lee Berman severiansola at hotmail.com >> I see little hope that the pseudo-human residents we find in 5HoC will evolve to >> the point of being industrious, productive humans. But I allow that is a debateable >> point. >> > _______________________________________________ > Urth Mailing List > To post, write urth at urth.net > Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net
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