Well, yes and no. Some Praxians did go to Peloria and liked it enough to stay -- the sable folk of the Hungry Plateau. But they were free, and kept their own culture. I think cult/pantheon inititiation is a very profound experience, and forms one's mindset for much of life - barring illumination. Waha and Kargzant may soon cease to answer farmers.
We play that nomads (Praxians, Grazers, Cha'Un) place great value on freedom, and view "digging" in the dirt as degrading (they have contempt for oasis folk and vendref, frex). I therefore doubt that many nomads would ever come to appreciate even a good life as a slave - it's "not in their idiom", to quote Cleese's Lancelot. An Aggari farmer might, or an Esrolian peasant, because they are more used to agrarian, hierarchical societies. Likewise, I'm not sure how many Lodrilli would ever get used to galloping around a barren plain persuing monsters for a living - with _no_ beer!
But, as an honored holder of the Order of the Death Rune and Sickle, David can be forgiven his zeal for the empire!
D McNamara makes some sort of reply about something, using lots of big philosophy words:
"episteme (see Foucault's 'order of things')..... relativism.... modern bourgeois capitalist manner of thought... (Levi-Strauss isn't very fashionable these days)...Essentialism....."
As much as I hate to criticize people or complain of high intellectual standards, I have to make a plea:
I am not a philosophy major. In fact, I got through my entire education without a single philosophy course. (Well, there was a rude encounter with Kafka, Sartre and Camus the spring term of my senior year of high school, but I've effectively managed to block that out.) Sad as that may be, I can not follow 3/4 of DM's jargonistic comments. Maybe if I sat down with the "Junior Philosopher's Encyclopedia" I could pick up a point or two, but that's not likely to happen.
Therefore, a challange to all: try and frame your points concisely and with Gloranthan examples. (Glorantha is about all that we have in common, anyway.) And I'll promise not to provide an analysis of the statistical rigor used to measure toxicity thresholds of Crimson Bat spit.
Thanks -
Pam
(BTW - I'd have to put CB spit in the "don't even *think* of landfilling it" category.)
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