If she fixed the rapacious, predatory capitalism of the robber barons, or the preceding feudalism and slavery-based cultures that formed the patterns that was based on, Karl Marx would have written a different book of philosophy and Marxism would have been an obscure subset of philosophical discourse.
Marxism wasn’t an injustice. It was a failed attempt to address an injustice. Right the underlying wrong, and it becomes irrelevant.
You forget the importance of making mistakes before you can learn from ‘em, Woodrobin. (Or, to be fair, fail-to-learn from them, which most people once given power, choose to do instead.)
I once started a story where the protagonist hijacked a time-travel device from an ‘end of time culture’ in order to destroy time travel. Her reasoning was simply that “I want my future to be MY future, not YOUR predetermined past” and that “Your timeline can’t be the natural one, or you wouldn’t have to send agents to ‘correct’ it.”
the reasoning being that any system that requires conscious efforts at correction is, by definition, artificial AND imposed.
Somehow I don’t think our costumed ladies (and Laserpony) would hold a similar view.
It is always strange to me how humans, as at least partially-conscious beings that act with intent, have goals, and work to achieve a future they desire, are suspicious of and opposed to the same.
That’s quite the fantasy view of reality you’ve got going there, that you think those robber barons did any good. Anything positive that happened was in spite of what they did not because of anything that they did. At least Marx’s followers were trying for good even if some simply used it as an excuse for their own greed and evil.
What, in particular, did Karl Marx do that was so wrong? Other people may have misunderstood or misused his work, but how much can he be held responsible for that? Are those people not responsible instead?
Reminds me of Red Mage complaining about the elemental orbs and who was so insane as to create a universe where if anything happened to the orbs the universe would die, like how could they create something with such a single point of failure. Same thing here, she’s made it so the universe has a single point of failure, a machine that must remain 100% operational 100% of the time which is an impossibility.
So she killed Karl Marx?
One would only hope, but I doubt it.
If she fixed the rapacious, predatory capitalism of the robber barons, or the preceding feudalism and slavery-based cultures that formed the patterns that was based on, Karl Marx would have written a different book of philosophy and Marxism would have been an obscure subset of philosophical discourse.
Marxism wasn’t an injustice. It was a failed attempt to address an injustice. Right the underlying wrong, and it becomes irrelevant.
You forget the importance of making mistakes before you can learn from ‘em, Woodrobin. (Or, to be fair, fail-to-learn from them, which most people once given power, choose to do instead.)
I once started a story where the protagonist hijacked a time-travel device from an ‘end of time culture’ in order to destroy time travel. Her reasoning was simply that “I want my future to be MY future, not YOUR predetermined past” and that “Your timeline can’t be the natural one, or you wouldn’t have to send agents to ‘correct’ it.”
the reasoning being that any system that requires conscious efforts at correction is, by definition, artificial AND imposed.
Somehow I don’t think our costumed ladies (and Laserpony) would hold a similar view.
It is always strange to me how humans, as at least partially-conscious beings that act with intent, have goals, and work to achieve a future they desire, are suspicious of and opposed to the same.
The “Robber Barons” did far more good for the world than Marx’s self-proclaimed followers ever did.
That’s quite the fantasy view of reality you’ve got going there, that you think those robber barons did any good. Anything positive that happened was in spite of what they did not because of anything that they did. At least Marx’s followers were trying for good even if some simply used it as an excuse for their own greed and evil.
Lol, tell me you know/care nothing about the conditions of the working class throughout history…
What, in particular, did Karl Marx do that was so wrong? Other people may have misunderstood or misused his work, but how much can he be held responsible for that? Are those people not responsible instead?
But, what does any of this have to do with Buck’s expanding… Well, you know.
That is a phenomenon that transcends causality and the space-time continuum as we understand them
I think the machine created two expanding universes inside her shirt. One strip at a time.
I’m looking forward to the wardrobe malfunction.
all the ruined timelines ended up inside her bosom, that is why they do grow more and more
Aw, it’s not a cage. Or not a regular one anyway. You could call it a cage for trapping paradoxes.
I think it’s a Nicolas.
Great! Now Earth does not only have a galaxy destroying device but also a universe destroying device.
First, we had a machine to destroy the universe, now you have a machine to avoid doing that.
Of course, her stealing the machine and wrecking the lab is, itself, an injustice. When is she planning to fix that?
Reminds me of Red Mage complaining about the elemental orbs and who was so insane as to create a universe where if anything happened to the orbs the universe would die, like how could they create something with such a single point of failure. Same thing here, she’s made it so the universe has a single point of failure, a machine that must remain 100% operational 100% of the time which is an impossibility.
Hey, that statement is only true depending of which universe and which writer we are talking bout.