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[25th.Apr.2008|01:29 pm] |
So, listen. I was reading Ceperanza's "MVP" (for, like, the millionth time, because someone recced it on Crack Van, and I looooooove it), and there's a part where Atlantis has to try and figure out how to help these two warring civilizations. It's a small bit of the story, but listen: they (Elizabeth, John, Rodney, Teyla) are arguing about how to help the people who are at a technical disadvantage. Basically the question is, arms race or relocation? Teyla suggests asking which the civilization would prefer. Turns out (to Rodney's surprise) they prefer relocation.
And all that made me think meta-ish thoughts which - I suck at meta. But SOMEONE (someone not me, someone who can string words together more coherently than I currently can) should write some meta - or better yet a STORY - that incorporates the vastly different ways people in the Pegasus galaxy must think of property, and how that appears to folks from Earth, and the conflicts, confusion and misunderstandings that could possibly arise. You know?
( This land is your land, this land is my land. )
Pegasus peoples must have very different ideas about property, don't you think? I do. That's the long and short of it. |
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