>OK, how about this: the GLs were dangerously "right" because they came
>close to fixating the universe in their paradigm, which would have
>squashed all the others.
It's dangerous to jump onto a moving train or an old thread, but I would like to point out that competing worldviews is a theme of Glorantha as a literary field. From that perspective, it's clear that there either is no Truth or that the Truth is unknowable, take your pick. However, certain worldviews are more effective than others at Heroquesting (a/k/a worldview combat) in either the short or the long run. Much like Western Rationalism is more effective than other Terran worldviews in killing people and imposing its own culture elsewhere.
Though it's dangerous to generalize from single instances, the lesson of the GL's seems to be that they were tremendously successful in the short run (century-scale), but disastrously unsuccessful in the long run (Age-scale). Does that make them "right" or "wrong"? Answer: mu.
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