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Stitcher Re-Awakened Technologies Inc The 11th Hour Alliance 2389	Posted - 2013.11.14 13:42:00 - [1] - Quote Gwen Ikiryo wrote: In fact, if anything, it glorifies the Capsuleer class a great deal more then it perhaps deserves. I'd wager that if you started asking random pod pilots if they chose the profession out of a desire to sacrifice themselves for the greater good, or out of a simple desire for wealth and/or immortality, then counted the number of honest former anwsers on your fingers... Well, you'd run out of Capsuleers before you ran out of fingers, I think. It intrigues me how frequently sacrifice and the greater good are equated, and are held as being fundamentally opposed to the quest for wealth and power. Yes heiian exists, but something that is not often discussed is the notion that the greater good can in fact be served by becoming wealthy and powerful. Which in fact is the entire point behind the State's capsule training program and the reason the megacorps are willing to tolerate the existence of any breakaway Caldari freecaptains. They recognise what isn't often spoken aloud - that a powerful economic driver like a freelance capsuleer is, properly exploited, a powerful force for collective benefit in their own right. One capsuleer's greedy and callous power-brokering is a multi-billion ISK industry, with all the associated jobs that such industries generate. If you need proof of that, just look at Jita 4-4. how much money does the Navy make off taxes and service charges at that station? And that money flowing into the Navy benefits the State, the megacorporations and their citizens. Capsuleers can paradoxically be "good Caldari" in the sense of contributing to the well-being of our people, by being "bad Caldari" in the sense of being solely self-interested. An in-character blog and a video: http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
Stitcher Re-Awakened Technologies Inc The 11th Hour Alliance 2390	Posted - 2013.11.14 15:06:00 - [2] - Quote Hung over, Anslo? An in-character blog and a video: http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
Stitcher Re-Awakened Technologies Inc The 11th Hour Alliance 2391	Posted - 2013.11.14 15:13:00 - [3] - Quote Caldari are about being Caldari. Tautological, I know, but a more in-depth examination of that thought would border on being an essay. An in-character blog and a video: http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
Stitcher Re-Awakened Technologies Inc The 11th Hour Alliance 2392	Posted - 2013.11.14 15:28:00 - [4] - Quote Our cultural independence is part of it, yes. Meritocracy is another. Then there's tradition, loyalty, industriousness, collectivism, Heiian, meritocracy, comradeship... I don't think of it as a linear spectrum with "bad Caldari" at one end and "good Caldari" at the other, but more like a spiderweb graph. Speaking for myself I think I'm a very good Caldari in some areas, and a catastrophically bad one in others. It's made all the more fuzzy by the way my definitions of "good" and "bad" in any given category may differ wildly from those of my countrymen. I tend to be of the opinion that it is a Caldari virtue to be intellectual, of inquiring mind and sharp insight. Others would have it that having faith in the intelligence of others while keeping your head down and working hard rather than smart is superior. An in-character blog and a video: http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
Stitcher Re-Awakened Technologies Inc The 11th Hour Alliance 2392	Posted - 2013.11.14 15:32:00 - [5] - Quote Anybody who claims to understand Caldari culture is lying. Especially if they are Caldari. An in-character blog and a video: http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
Stitcher Re-Awakened Technologies Inc The 11th Hour Alliance 2395	Posted - 2013.11.14 16:28:00 - [6] - Quote Desiderya wrote: Stitcher wrote: Anybody who claims to understand Caldari culture is lying. Especially if they are Caldari. What a load of BS. The alternative is that they're mistaken. An in-character blog and a video: http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738

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