On 4/12/22 12:19 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
The contrast between fewer replication cycles of vampires that live thousands of years vs. many generations of short-lived mortals seems related.. Is the walk deep and informative, or is the key thing to stay away from attractors? If there are truly billions of individuals, then short trips can explore a large space -- if there is communication between individuals and across generations.
I have an obsessive-but-under-motivated belief in complexity/diversity/heterarchy as the solution to everything. It evidences itself here by thinking that our modern "way of being" suffers from a lack of multi-generational households-neighborhoods and too often even, a lack of interest in the voices of generations past/future. Your hypothetical vampire-culture would seem to offer longer time-scale connections and (perhaps) attendant perspective and ?wisdom? I don't know vampire-culture beyond a guilty Bram Stoker and Anne Rice reading or two, but the latter definitely seems to reference this nicely... offering a certain mentorship role by the long-lived to the yet-more-mortal (armatured around blood and other lusts, of course).
Generations past (and under-mobile near-subsistence cultures today) have more intergenerational households and neighborhoods providing the heterarchical/holarchical connection/communication you suggest. Or so my "just so" story relates.
The expansive breadth offered by global (near-instantaneous, global) communication/publication/relationship connections possibly makes up for that in the large, a major refactoring of problems and solutions.
I personally suffer from the lack of cross-cultural, cross-class experience of frequenting a neighborhood "watering hole" (pub/tavern/saloon) in the way Glen seems to enjoy (cultivate). My oldest regular drinking-philosophy buddy would be over 110 today (he died over 20 years ago from alcohol-related illness) and until about 5 years ago I had a small cohort of 30ish imbibing interlocutors. I blame COVID, but the reasons are probably larger and more nefarious.
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