RE: No Good Guys? (Re: ATTN Jon T: Free CalTex Government and Soc iety?)

It's a reflection of real life.  Almost every nation has an atrocity in
its
history or has turned a blind eye to a bad situation to protect its
interests.

That doesn't mean individuals can't take up the banner of being a good
hero
or an evil villain.  You can have a moustache twisting, sadist NAC
minister
and an ESU Mother Teresa or vice versa.

The governments of the future, governing ever growing populations on
dozens
of worlds are going to get bigger, more corrupt and increasingly
unwieldy
(unless Jon says so, of course <g>).  Governments go where the power and
money lead them, and rarely is that on the right path.

Just my ramblings,
Nathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark A. Siefert. [SMTP:cthulhu@csd.uwm.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 1998 5:08 PM
> To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Subject:	No Good Guys? (Re: ATTN Jon T: Free CalTex Government
and
> Society?)
> 
> Doug_Evans/CSN/UNEBR@UNebMail.UNeb.EDU wrote:
> > 
> > Also, the repression by NAC definitely feeds to the 'no good guys'
line
> JT
> > mentioned earlier. ;->=
> 
>	You know something... This is just an observation mind you, but
the
> idea of "no-good-guys" seems to be the trend in game background
writing
> these days. (e.g. WH40K, Heavy Gear, Warzone and quite a few other
games
> out on the market.)  Have we become so cynical and so pesimistic that
we
> no longer desire for real heros and obvious villians for the modern
> myths we weave?  If so, why are we like this.
> -- 
> Later,
> Mark A. Siefert
> 
>      "Armed people are free.	No state can control those who have the 
> machinery and the will to resist, no mob can take their liberty and 
> property.  And no 220-pound thug can threaten the well being or
dignity 
> of a 110-pound woman who had two pounds of iron to even things out."
> 
>				     --Clarissa Olson
>					From "The Probability Broach"
>					By L. Neil Smith
> 
> cthulhu@csd.uwm.edu		  
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