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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox
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Posted - 2016.10.26 04:00:15 -
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Possibly a case of the existing big player being so focused on their established product lines that they fail to be alert for new opportunities to diversify.
Still, that's not necessarily a mistake: The emergent intel concerning these new clone developments doesn't give me any reason to believe that the new tech is going to render Zainou's lines obsolete, so much as offer an alternative.
I daresay the incentive provided by a little healthy competition will be a good thing.
AKA Hambone
Author of The Deathworlders
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox
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Posted - 2016.10.26 12:00:49 -
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Veikitamo Gesakaarin wrote:Iesa Morikomo seems to forget that there's always a corporate war brewing in the State, and alluding to one between KK and SuVee as the major players in the new military clone program is like saying snow is cold.
Aren't there at least twenty ways to say that snow is cold in some old homeworld dialects?
AKA Hambone
Author of The Deathworlders
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox
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Posted - 2016.10.26 13:01:04 -
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Veikitamo Gesakaarin wrote:I still can't decide whether SuVee's allowance of Achuran appropriation of Caldari cultural values is more or less worse than Ishukone's allowance of Minmatar appropriation of Caldari cultural values. I suppose in that, they're both equally terrible in promoting and enabling the dilution of culture, tradition, and history.
"Appropriation?"
For me that would rather imply that they've taken something and will never give it back. Can culture be appropriated?
AKA Hambone
Author of The Deathworlders
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox
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Posted - 2016.10.27 08:13:07 -
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I apologize: my argument is a semantic one. I do not disagree as a matter of fact that the process you describe is a reality. I simply disagree with your choice of terminology.
I think you and I have differing understandings of what the word "appropriation" means. I have always understood it to mean "to take and make one's own, usually without the owner's consent." Synonymous with [i']seizing'[/i], 'commandeering', 'acquisition' and 'hijack'.
Which would make it not the correct word for what you so eloquently described as the "attempted rapine of Caldari culture". I have always interpreted that event not as being a case of attempting to seize our culture and use it for their own (that, after all, would just be effective cultural colonization on our part), but rather to impose their culture on us and allow ours to be crushed.
For which, I think words such as 'supplant', 'replace', 'suppress' or possibly 'inflict' might be more apt.
"Cultural Supplantation" rolls just as easily off the tongue as "Cultural Appropriation" and I think would be a much more accurate description of what our people faced and fought.
AKA Hambone
Author of The Deathworlders
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox
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Posted - 2016.10.27 21:12:27 -
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Veikitamo Gesakaarin wrote:...a Matari or Achuran telling me they are Caldari when they trace no lineage to my Homeland.
On this point in particular I think we must agree to have a slight difference of opinion.
For me, "Caldari" is less an ethnic group and more a life philosophy, an allegiance and state of mind. One that I am quite happy for others to adopt, and interpret.
It is the destruction of our way of life that I fear, not the notion that others might wish to partake.
AKA Hambone
Author of The Deathworlders
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox
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Posted - 2016.10.29 16:59:36 -
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somehow I think you've got a slightly skewed idea of what meritocracy means.
AKA Hambone
Author of The Deathworlders
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox
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Posted - 2016.10.30 23:10:23 -
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A case of "O how the mighty have fallen" according to some people...
AKA Hambone
Author of The Deathworlders
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox
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Posted - 2016.11.04 16:38:38 -
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Veikitamo Gesakaarin wrote:Aria Jenneth wrote: Was your paragon really a thoughtless person who thought his beliefs were beyond questioning?
I would say it is more that I am not so thoughtless a person as to question the beliefs of my kirjuunen who fought and died alongside me on battlefields stained with their blood before you were even born, Ms. Jenneth. To question my beliefs is in itself to doubt the significance of their sacrifices, and betray my loyalty to them even in death.
Today is not yesterday.
Sacrifices that were necessary, correct and honorable when the people who made them, made them, might be unnecessary and even entirely the wrong thing to do in the circumstances of the present.
The legacy of the honored dead guides us: it does not rule us.
We must still be self-sufficient in our decisions. We must use our own faculties of reason, our own observations and our own experience to help us interpret the experiences of our ancestors, but for now we are the rock in the stream. We are the hand on the tiller.
The world changes, and we must adapt. To decide that what your ancestors did, while appropriate then and there, would not be appropriate here and now is no disrespect at all.
And of course there's every possibility that an ancestor's sacrifice was NOT the right thing to do then and there. They were just as human and fallible as we are, using just the same limited perspective and knowledge to do the best they could in their own difficult times. Some of them will have failed, or sacrificed what they did not need to. Those lessons are just as valuable.
AKA Hambone
Author of The Deathworlders
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox
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Posted - 2016.11.06 01:01:53 -
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Veikitamo Gesakaarin wrote:"How shall I go in peace without sorrow? Nay, not without a wound in spirit shall I leave this city.
Long were the days of pain I spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret?
Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many are the children of my longing that walk naked among these hills, and I cannot withdraw from them without a burden and an ache.
It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands."
Please forgive me; I'm not fluent in cryptic poetry.
AKA Hambone
Author of The Deathworlders
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