Friday, 8 May 2020

The Old Ways

If globalization ends the old ways, then how much more will interstellar contact?

See:

Old Wilwidh
The old order changeth...

In Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic History:

"It was old Khazak that fought, the planet of warriors, and, even as he hewed and danced and slew, Janazik thought bleakly that he was trying to end the gory magnificence of that age; he was bringing civilization and with it the doom of his own kind. Khazak of the future would not be the same world."
-"Star Ship," p. 298.

His old comradeship with Anse ends a few pages later.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I fully expect human stubbornness to preserve as many as those old ways as possible. And I don't think that will always be bad.

Ad astra! Sean