Re: The Kra'Vak,and alien cultures in general

I agree with you. If he Kra'Vak really are like this, then I feel that
strategically they would be no match to humanity, once we got our eire
up, no
matter how squared away they are tactically.

Los

Chen-Song Qin wrote:

> That reminds me of another thing.  I'm not sure about the conjecture
of
> highly stratified alien societies. (i.e. caste system, guild system,
etc.)
> Stratified societies tend to be highly resistant to change and inhibit
> growth.  In economic terms, for example, having warrior, worker and
> religious (hmm... sounds familiar?) castes, where members born into
each
> caste can only work within that caste, would severely limit the labour
> pool available for various professions.  Hard for capitalism,
> enterpreneurship, etc. to develope...  This may in turn severely
limitthe
> rate at which new technology can be introduced into industry and
society.
> Anyone care to comment on this?  Just some ramblings.
>
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> Even the engineers are not *this* depraved.  This must be the work of
the
> Med. students.
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>						  - A friend of mine
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> On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Los wrote:
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> <snip interesting info on the Kra'vak>