03-20-2018, 06:02 AM
(03-20-2018, 05:46 AM)extherian Wrote: In real life I've always been interested in the "Prepper" movements in the United States that don't trust the wider society they live in, or groups like the Amish that just ignore the wider world around them in favour of life on their terms. If I had to live in the Terragen Sphere, I'd volunteer to be part of a Baseline reserve and turn my back on it all.
Semperists are an OA group with similar views to preppers.
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/54c13047394fc
(03-20-2018, 05:46 AM)extherian Wrote: Then again, I place a great deal of importance on freedom and autonomy in real life, whether at the level of the individual or the wider society. These things aren't important to OA citizens, since for some strange reason the gods see to their every need. But it is important to me, and the cultural shock would be more than I could handle.
As do I but funnily enough I come to the opposite conclusion. Your average modosophont in the sephirotics has more freedom and autonomy IMO. Freedom from blights, perversions, much greater freedom from economic disparity or oppressive governments (with angelnet technology a modosophont society that slid into totalitarianism may never get out, resistance is futile when autonomous machines of the state can read your every thought and watch you constantly), much greater autonomy over their body and minds etc. Yeah there is a risk that the gods might squash you....but to be honest I don't view that as any more frightening than the prospect that one day a meteorite might hit me, or the false vacuum might collapse, or some foreign super power I have no control over will kick off a nuclear war with another foreign super power I have no control over. You can't have it all, but for me the Sephirotics are the closest one can get But you're certainly not alone in your views. There are other members who find the sephirotics and major empires creepy and stifling.
OA Wish list:
- DNI
- Internal medical system
- A dormbot, because domestic chores suck!