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RE: Sexual morality, violence, and Power [Chapter 2.8]
I must say, this took a turn I didn't expect.
Gilese is certainly a colorful planet and culture, but a utopian fantasy world seems a bit of a strange place to start when you're trying to say stuff about the real world. Gilese makes some impressive leaps and more than a few generalizations.
Not to say I'm totally closed to it. I think I get what you're trying to say there.
By the way, where does that name come from?
@a-non-e-moose We didn't expect this turn either. It's just what came up in writing today :)
Gilese 581g is a real, known, potentially 'habitable', planet, in the so-called "Goldilocks Zone" of a distant star system. Obviously we don't actually know what's going on there (probably).
I take your point, and we're thinking of taking the imaginative Gilese material and putting it in a separate book which invites meditation on alternative global cultures. I agree that it's probably best to keep this book, "Secret doors, Hidden Rooms", focused on deconstructing existing systems of mind-control, rather than proposing utopias just yet :) Whether this was strictly suitable for the current book is something that had been on my mind since we wrote this section; so thank you for clarifying it.