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[Jenny_Jackson]

Have you noticed how much the AH is like PKD's "Clans of the Alphane Moon"?

 

[3113]

Have you noticed how much the AH is like PKD's "Clans of the Alphane Moon"?

As part of the Pares, I am very suspicious of your motives in bringing this out into the open...not to mention alarmed that you'd use my name in a thread title !

Though I can't deny what you say is true. So long as we keep the Mans occupied....

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

As part of the Pares, I am very suspicious of your motives in bringing this out into the open...not to mention alarmed that you'd use my name in a thread title !

Though I can't deny what you say is true. So long as we keep the Mans occupied....

And the "norms" out

 

[3113]

And the "norms" out

Absolutely. I have this belief that some Skitzes are really Norms playing at being Skitzes...but that might just be paranoia.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Would you two like to share this with the rest of the class, hmm?

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Would you two like to share this with the rest of the class, hmm?

Phillip K. Dick AKA PKD wrote a book some years ago titled Clans of the Alphane Moon. The Alphane moon was a mental institution that had been abandoned but left to nuts to run the place on their own. The society was totally stable. The "Mans" or Manics had their own thing, the "Neuros" or Neurotics had their own thing and so on. But the point is, they all got along famously.

Problems began when outworlders discovered the Alphane Moon was a source of some rich mineral or other and decided they needed it. So they moved in. That's when things went to shit. The "Norms" really couldn't deal with the indigenous nuts.

 

[starrkers]

'Tis a wonderful book.

The norms are easy to deal with -there's only one of them after all!