In Neolithic Denmark, Lockridge meets:
"Auri, whose name meant Flower Feather..."
-CHAPTER SIX, p. 47.
Native Americans:
"...tell of a wise kindly god and of a goddess named Flower Feather."
-CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE, p. 204.
Thus, Lockridge/Lynx and his people fare widely and:
"...might even touch America..." (ibid.)
Lynx thinks:
"We will build a sanctuary here...to the worship of Her Who one day will be called Mary." (pp. 203-204)
She is also in the Time Patrol timeline: Ave Stella Maris!
Lynx founds a realm in the Bronze Age which at that time is a "...new age..." (p. 204)
"...the first land the world ever saw which was both strong and free..." (ibid.)
"...a time rich, peaceful, and happy..." with no "...burning, slaughter, or enslavement." (ibid.)
"...the Northern races become one." (ibid.)
"...a thousand fortunate years...generations of gladness..." (ibid.)
Storm wondered whether the Wardens and Rangers killed the dinosaurs and scarred the Moon. Lynx shows a beneficial circular causality.
11 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
A Catholic like me would object to Lockridge that we don't and should not "worship" the BVMK like a "goddess."
I fear Anderson was being a bit wishful. Over and over Stirling has presented archeological and historical evidence that there never was such a peaceful realm as the one founded by Lynx.
Ad astra! Sean
Correction, "BVM" not "BVMK."
Sean
Also, the archaeology doesn't say the Nordic Bronze Age was -peaceful-. It just wasn't as compulsively warlike as the Iron Age.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Just the same kind of everyday, low intensity "look behind a tree before urinating" violence seen in all pre-State cultures.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: yes. Without the State, the primary means of deterrence is the risk of blood-feud.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Exactly! Without the State we get either rickety attempts to keep the peace via via vendetta/weregild (as in Iceland before it collapsed in the Sturlung Age) or Haiti.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: just so. And blood feuds tend to become more violent over time.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Always, always, always attempts at controlling crime in the private sector inevitably fails. Which is another reason why the State is necessary.
I have no patience for nonsense from Utopians about the State somehow disappearing.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
The state will not somehow disappear but crime will be redundant when technology makes wealth abundant and when society shares it equally because there is no longer any need to hoard it or to deny it to others. You are a dystopian as I try to explain patiently.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I don't believe in such fantasies one bit! Given how flawed, imperfect, and predatory we all are or can be, the State, in whatever form, will continue to be necessary.
I deny being dystopian, I am a Burkean style conservative and orthodox Catholic who believes in having no illusions about myself and the human race. Iow, a realist willing to accept hard facts.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
They are not fantasies but possibilities. "...are or can be.." is ambiguous. All or most of us can act badly in some situations and well in others. There are many people who are never predatory! As long as you state that we are all flawed and imperfect, I will reply by simply denying it.
Why can technology not produce abundance? Why can this not be shared equally? These are possible, although not inevitable, futures. What would there be left to be predatory about when everyone has everything that they need and more?
I deny being Utopian. I have no illusions about myself or the human race. I am a realist willing to accept hard facts.
However, merely making these statements about ourselves establishes nothing as I am trying to demonstrate.
Paul.
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