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been reading The Dawn Of Everything and wow do they make a good & persuasive case that cultures can and do choose to embrace or reject technologies based upon the impact those technologies would have upon the way they relate to one another and think about themselves!Permalink Look on archive.org
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a further thought about the way that societies spanned great distances, but since transport was difficult, the main thing exchanged was culture, people, and a small scattering of precious artefacts.Permalink Look on archive.org
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a lot of sci fi feels like it stumbles on this point? space travel too rare and costly to be worth it for commodities, but how else does an empire form? and also maybe a thought for the future, where air travel & shipping become yet more expensive, but yet the internet persists.Permalink Look on archive.org
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banger paragraph:Permalink Look on archive.org
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i want lots of games people to read this book. not especially because of the arguments it makes about play, but because it has such an expansive vision for other ways people can organise their societies & I want to spend time within social systems that work in new ways.Look on archive.org
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it's a hard ask to make those games, though, because these ways of living are so different from the baseline assumptions we have, and that's hard stuff to teach a player. King of Dragon Pass is incredible, but is a difficult game to get into despite only getting halfway there.Permalink Look on archive.org
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maybe the more practical ask is to hope for more sci-fi/fantasy authors to write in the tradition of Le Guin. which, yes, this is a thing I have desired long before reading this. (tho, ofc, if this is a thing you are trying to do, I would still recommend this book)Permalink Look on archive.org
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i just realised that one of their (implicit) arguments is something like: with the rise of states & therefore the existence of borders, human freedom decreased radically because you could not leave an oppressive situation & create a new society elsewhere. aka:Permalink Look on archive.org
