Wuchu wrote:(Image)Dah Big Boy#0688
kotera@wuchu.xml
Hullo, hullo, hullo,
Being somewhat of a nomad myself, but born under the Leviathan's watch, I've had the opportunity to experience both the sedentary and the free lifestyles which you yourself see clash every day. There's an interesting correlation, between surplus and the nomadic life.
You see, in many regions such as your own, a surplus of resources is simply not possible to maintain, hence an inability to establish a State, and with it, Civilisation itself. In my own time, global warming has sort of... well, fucked the whole thing, really. Many of the lands previously inhabited by great cities have become deserts, and in the eyes of the civilised, uninhabitable.
But as you know, those lands are not uninhabitable; they're merely not equipped to provide for a specific form of human lifestyles. While the men up in New Kremlin - a sort of future Berghi, if you will - scream constantly about the sparse life and lack of humans in those places, I've visited plenty of communities there to know their words to be fucking lies. The people there have lived there for generations - with time, they transformed their usage of land. Abandoning industrial export-oriented monocultures, they first moved to self-sufficient farming, then they moved to pastoralism, and now, many of them enjoy the freedoms of nomadism.
With that, their culture has likewise changed. Lands previously governed under strict castes, hierarchical corporations, are now filled with egalitarian tribes.
For most of our species' existence, your lifestyle was the way, and the wilderness, our home. That persisted, even with the invention of civilised communities. There is a land, far away from you, where thousands of languages are spoken by a couple million nomads, hunter-gatherers. They've survived the invention of a civilisation created by an invader, called Australia; their homelands were too barren to be occupied by the civoids.
My question is thus: taking into your heart what I've said, how do you feel?
I think, at the end of it all, your people will be okay. Suffering is in your future, of course, but that's true for all of us. I think you'll be okay.
Kotera
Co-Chairman of the Swamp Gang
"...it will not be the same.
We will die before we are born again, if what you say is true. And that is the way of things, no? Nothing lasts, not in this world. But I would be a liar if I did not admit that I do not take comfort in your words.
As selfish and as childish as it may sound, I would rather be victorious in my time than be a great martyr to another. I apologize for not knowing what else to say. I was never one to think about such things, really. Not like you are."
-This is why Kotera scares Ari, he makes her introspective, and she doesn't like being introspective. Too much thinking involved.
