Comments on: Coming Anarchy 1, Introduction

By: mark safranski

mark safranski — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Establishing order to Coming Anarchy ! :O)

By: Dan tdaxp

Dan tdaxp — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

After giving my description of Beijing traffic (the cab drive who drove into pedestrians, flashing police SUVs ignored because they are not traffic police, etc) to Father of tdaxp , he described at as “Regimented Anarchy” — which may be a good name for a CA spinoff focusing on Victorian Pagan life on-the-ground

By: Chirol

Chirol — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Looking forward to the rest. We'll have to run a "Tdaxp confessions " series to be even. We'll start with you in front of your webcam telling all! Maybe you can make out a few times too =)

By: Dan tdaxp

Dan tdaxp — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

LOL! Webcam may be a bit much.. but there's word of a podcast interview, possibly very soon…

By: Taylor

Taylor — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think what you are creating is very incisive, however always remember that what you create is not always the way.

(p.s. the Ender's Game analogy to my Strategos ideas is coming soon)

By: Dan tdaxp

Dan tdaxp — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Taylor,

I thought of Ender's Game a lot in this class. Particularly how well trained Ender becomes to his task, and the sacrifices he makes for it. I believe near the end of the book the writing discusses "the destruction of Ender's body" under the rigor of training. Some good thoughts on this on the "Sacrifices" thread of this series [1].

Interestingly, I also thought of that book a lot in Adolescent Psychology. [2] Ender uses multiple perspectives a lot, most famously in "The Enemy's Gate is Down," in that book and the series, both literally and figuratively

[1] http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/06/10/coming-anarchy-6-sacrifices.html
[2] http://www.tdaxp.com/unl_adolescent_psychology/