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Old 11-22-2011, 08:36 PM   #180
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Default Re: 'Imperial Culture' (non-canonista)

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Originally Posted by combatmedic View Post
You seem to be arguing against positions I haven't actually taken. I never said that the TC was a monolith, or that policies never varied. I simply described an overall trend.
Yes, but you attributed a specific motive to "the government", other then what would have been it's stated one. To do that you would either have to posit a conspiracy containing enough government members to be said to represent it in a meaningful sense, that is yet kept from the general population, most of whom serve the government at some point in their lives. Or you would have to assume false consciousness.
Alternatively you can posit that this only refers to the topmost levels of The Government. For two hundred years.
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