Bokonon: But it strikes me as strange that we could have any - TopicsExpress



          

Bokonon: But it strikes me as strange that we could have any “dominant group”, any “default”. Because the world is so evenly split between men and women, because there are so many different ethnic groups, languages and cultures that no single group could ever come close to forming a majority. In order for there to be a default, we would have needed to put millennia of effort into diminishing the others, into typecasting them, until no writer could ever put them at the forefront of a work of fiction or of history without making a statement. We would have forced an entire world into being non-playable characters, into being objects in the telling of human history. It would be a mind-blowing achievement, a masterwork of alienation. And I don’t know how the human race would ever recover.
Posted on: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 04:08:50 +0000

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