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Re: Deference Issues!
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06-22-2019, 03:40 PM | #32 |
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Re: Deference Issues!
I'm posting on this thread again because I think this thread speaks to something vital about THS. It assumes changes in how we see the meaning of being human and that changes of that sort would be reflected in changes in society and matterial culture. The book Toxic Memes even discribes technologies designed to promote new systems of status and deference. The idea of and electronic scoreboard were people can like or dislike you or your actions in real time as if you were a blog post hardly even seems like Sci Fi. But it has real possibilities of transforming societies. Just look how our crude and limited social media of today are shaking up society.
A setting like THS, were social media and society's responce to it are vastly more complex would be radically different. Not to mention that even the most conservative takes on this setting's advanced and potent Memetic Science and how that would transform all aspects of human social interaction. Looking at how something as basic as defference would be changed and how that would shift power around in the system would be a good start for figuring out how to play in this alien social environment.
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Re: Deference Issues!
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06-24-2019, 05:22 AM | #34 | |
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Of course gaming the system would be a lively rogues campaign.
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