Storm's take on the Wardens versus Rangers conflict:
Life as imagined against life as it is;
plan against organic development;
control against freedom;
overriding rationalism against animal wholeness;
the machine against the living flesh.
People on the wrong side:
Draco
Diocletian
Torquemada
Calvin
Locke
Voltaire
Napoleon
Marx
Lenin
Nietzsche
Arguellas
the author(s) of the Jovian Manifesto
Also wrong: the burning of the Confucian Willow Books (?).
Storm sure knows how to present a one-sided argument. When I was reading The Corridors Of Time for the very first time and before I had reached the description of a Ranger city, I thought that the Rangers were right and the Wardens wrong but, of course, the point is that both sides are one-sided.
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Kaor, Paul!
And I recall how the distant successors of the Wardens and Rangers told Malcolm that both sides were wrong/right at the same time. That is, they both stressed something that was good so far that it became bad.
Sean
Martin Luther remarked that human beings are like a drunken peasant trying to ride a horse -- gets on, falls off on one side, gets back on, falls off on the other side.
Dear Mr. Stirling,
A good analogy, despite my dislike for Martin Luther.
Sean
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