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> Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 10:17:51 +0800
> From: David Cake <dave_at_difference.com.au>
> Subject: healed broo and heresy
>
> Peter Larsen wrote:
> >Anyway, it seems to me that, if Lunar Philosophy is at all valid,
> >that Broo should be able to use it to rid themselves of the ugly side of
> >chaos. Of course, there's no reason why any person, Lunar Citizen or not,
> >would trust a Broo, o matter how civilized.
>
> Of course, Lunar philosophy says that broo should be
> 'healable'. They can prove it - they have such 'healed' broo. The
> ugly matter of normal broo reproduction probably remains in effect,
> though. In practice, there are very few broo that appear to have been
> successfully civilised - a small enough number of decadent Glamour
> celebrities that sceptical observers could easily convince themselves
> that they are not truly healed, just better able to conceal their
> innate depravity.
> Inspired by the few 'healed' broo illuminatants,
Don't forget the Zola Fel "Pure One" myth, though. The idea broo can be redeemed
ain't just a Lunar idea.
> its
> perfectly possible that someone will then go on to try to breed out
> the innate nastiness of broo and produce a civilised strain - and
> like Nick, I think its inevitably going to go terribly wrong, mostly
> because I think that is the best direction for dramatic use of this
> idea.
>
And also invites hideous puns on "Moon-santo" chaotically modified crops.
Tom
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