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The culture of The Culture
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If we have been guilty of western cultural bias when describing the Terragen Sphere that is understandable, since that is the culture we are living in; but if any contributor wants to write about worlds or cultures that are not obviously descended from Enlightenment ideals they are welcome to.

For my own part I often imagine the cultures on the worlds I describe as being moderately or even extremely non-western, or even non humanocentric; but it is difficult to describe these sorts of cultures in a short article. But I must admit that when I imagine the effects of transapient influence on these worlds, I tend to project some sort of post-Enlightenment humanist/rationalist philosophy on the transaps; this could easily be very wide of the mark. There's no reason to expect that transapients would be humanist humanophiles, even if they exist within the Sephirotic Empires.

That might have been Bank's point when he made several of the Mind characters in his books egregious or even sadistic; I'm looking at you, Falling Outside The Normal Moral Constraints and Grey Area.
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The culture of The Culture - by Matterplay1 - 12-01-2014, 04:18 AM
RE: The culture of The Culture - by Drashner1 - 12-01-2014, 06:56 AM
RE: The culture of The Culture - by stevebowers - 12-01-2014, 07:56 AM
RE: The culture of The Culture - by Matterplay1 - 12-02-2014, 05:21 PM
RE: The culture of The Culture - by Steel Accord - 12-07-2014, 05:10 PM
RE: The culture of The Culture - by LightBuilder - 12-08-2014, 04:12 AM
RE: The culture of The Culture - by Steel Accord - 12-11-2014, 01:35 PM
RE: The culture of The Culture - by stevebowers - 12-08-2014, 04:00 AM
RE: The culture of The Culture - by Rynn - 12-08-2014, 05:06 AM
RE: The culture of The Culture - by Dalex - 12-12-2014, 02:44 AM
RE: The culture of The Culture - by Matterplay1 - 01-04-2015, 01:28 PM
RE: The culture of The Culture - by Drashner1 - 12-12-2014, 01:40 PM
RE: The culture of The Culture - by stevebowers - 12-12-2014, 11:11 PM

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