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** Seriously? The Alignment's biggest strength is that they're running one of the longest games in fiction outside [[Dune]]. It's very hard to detect an agent who is in place decades or more before they're tasked with doing ''anything.'' The biggest stumbling block, admittedly, is the problem of skirting the line between having kids that come across as Draco Malfoy vs. having the kids swallow the opposition's dogma. |
** Seriously? The Alignment's biggest strength is that they're running one of the longest games in fiction outside [[Dune]]. It's very hard to detect an agent who is in place decades or more before they're tasked with doing ''anything.'' The biggest stumbling block, admittedly, is the problem of skirting the line between having kids that come across as Draco Malfoy vs. having the kids swallow the opposition's dogma. |
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*** And that's exactly why I'm not buying it. If you want to successfully indoctrinate a kid, you ''must'' do it openly. Kids are pretty uncomplicated, really, and all fancy stuff you can use with adults, like subversive media, hints, indirect speech, etc. tend to fly over their heads pretty high above. Another problem, that it has to be done fairly early -- teens are already too late. But if you tell your preschool kid that you're really a foreign spy and (s)he will be too, in future, you may rest assured that anyone in the kindergarten or primary school will know about at by the next day. Oops. |
*** And that's exactly why I'm not buying it. If you want to successfully indoctrinate a kid, you ''must'' do it openly. Kids are pretty uncomplicated, really, and all fancy stuff you can use with adults, like subversive media, hints, indirect speech, etc. tend to fly over their heads pretty high above. Another problem, that it has to be done fairly early -- teens are already too late. But if you tell your preschool kid that you're really a foreign spy and (s)he will be too, in future, you may rest assured that anyone in the kindergarten or primary school will know about at by the next day. Oops. |
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**** Remember that the Alignment has access both to adjustment technology and to context-sensitive suicide rigs. Its not really a mystery as to how they keep people from talking. So much as mentioning the word "onion" to Victor Cachat in a context that made it plain he was talking about the Mesan Alignment caused Lajos Irvine to have a stroke right on the spot. |
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** Apparently jossed, if you read the Dramatis Personae list at the end of ''Mission of Honor''. Kubrick is listed as being the board director of the "Maxwell Association." Whether that system has any ties with Beowulf or not is, of course, up for debate. |
** Apparently jossed, if you read the Dramatis Personae list at the end of ''Mission of Honor''. Kubrick is listed as being the board director of the "Maxwell Association." Whether that system has any ties with Beowulf or not is, of course, up for debate. |
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** In addition to that, it is specifically stated that all of the Renaissance Factor systems are in the Verge. Beowulf is, of course, a Core World. |
** In addition to that, it is specifically stated that all of the Renaissance Factor systems are in the Verge. Beowulf is, of course, a Core World. |
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