tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post7094784692827856164..comments2024-03-28T18:59:57.979+00:00Comments on Poul Anderson Appreciation: Terrestrial SocietyKetlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-88168521378261778532014-10-25T22:33:27.286+01:002014-10-25T22:33:27.286+01:00Hi, Paul!
True, but if my memory of THE MAN WHO C...Hi, Paul!<br /><br />True, but if my memory of THE MAN WHO COUNTS is correct, Wace himself didn't seem to mind; to say nothing of how he still became an engineer and an employee of Solar Spice and Liquors. Plus, he seems to have believed himself likely to rise fairly high within the Company. So, Wace himself seems to have prospered.<br /><br />My view remains that all societies will have their flaws and defects. I would prefer to err on the side of putting chains on the power of the state.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-1124563398909333552014-10-25T18:08:42.739+01:002014-10-25T18:08:42.739+01:00Sean,
Although I think you are right about educati...Sean,<br />Although I think you are right about education in the Solar Commonwealth, it is an educational system that leaves some people, like Wace, starting work at the age of twelve, so I think that this system also has its flaws.<br />Paul.Paul Shackleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04180596532266581425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-66910844997957989342014-10-25T15:59:27.346+01:002014-10-25T15:59:27.346+01:00Hi, Paul!
I agree, and I wish we knew more about ...Hi, Paul!<br /><br />I agree, and I wish we knew more about the details of every day life on Earth during both the Solar Commonwealth and the Terran Empire.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-8710713788442371972014-10-25T10:23:49.086+01:002014-10-25T10:23:49.086+01:00Sean,
You are probably right. (I deliberately used...Sean,<br />You are probably right. (I deliberately used the phrase "public school" in its American sense in this post.) It is fascinating to reflect on these background details of Technic Civilization.<br />Paul.Paul Shackleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04180596532266581425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-26062269153161431292014-10-25T08:39:40.495+01:002014-10-25T08:39:40.495+01:00Hi, Paul!
In your comments about Eric Wace and ed...Hi, Paul!<br /><br />In your comments about Eric Wace and education during the time of the Solar Commonwealth, I think you are overlooking an important point: up till at least the Satan/Shen incident, the mood and ideal was LIBERTARIAN. That is, hostile to the idea of a centralized state--and probably including popular dislike to the idea of schools run by or paid for by taxes. Education was probably left to various kinds of private, ecclesiastical, corporate, technical, or trades oriented institutions. <br /><br />I can easily imagine how, remembering the tyrannies and despotisms of the 20th and 21st centuries, there could be a widespread reaction against any kind of too powerful state. And that would include a distaste for gov't run or paid schools. I don't know how familiar with US tax oaid schools (what we call "public" schools, different from the British use of that term) you are, but many, many of them are terrible in quality. I can easily see that leadinig to a movement to abolish or severely limit the use of tax paid schools during the heyday of the Commonwealth.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.com