Magnusson to Flandry:
"'I think what's blinkering you is your sick hatred of Merseians.'" (p. 396)
Glib. Flandry opposes the policies of the Roidhunate, therefore he hates the Merseians? Non sequitur. (It does not follow.) Some of us oppose the policies of a particular politician, therefore we are solely motivated by an irrational personal hatred of him? Of course not. Communication and mutual understanding become impossible when that kind of assumption/accusation is made.
Flandry has made it clear that he likes and respects some individual Merseians and he says so again but what he is after here is an understanding of Magnusson's motivations and that he most certainly does get. However, this time, it is not Flandry's intervention that saves the day - but that makes the Technic History slightly more plausible. Flandry was not around to deal with resistance to the Empire on Freehold or to thwart Aycharaych on Aeneas and it is not he that sabotages Magnusson's rebellion.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Exactly! Flandry did not hate Merseians en masse. He simply disliked and opposed the racialist ideology of the Roidhunate and the policies springing from that philosophy.
Correct, the non Flandry stories you alluded to helps a LOT to make the Imperial era Technic stories very plausible.
Ad astra! Sean
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