005- [phone// standard drone filter] Handbook...

[courting_glory]

[Fritz got his mail this morning and read through the information several times. Most of it makes at least some sense, but there's a few things that have him confused. Mostly terms that stem from later than the 18th centruy. So here he is on the phone. Because it's a big town. Someone should know....]

I assume that you all got the same 'letter' in

Comments

[laughedatbygod]

Yes, I admit I was rather puzzled as to its meaning as well.

[courting_glory]

If I ever get a proper explanation, I'll let you know. And this communism thing almost sounds like they expect the nobility to work alongside peasants.

But I can't honestly imagine anyone thinking that was a good idea.

[laughedatbygod]

The very notion is rather hard to conceive of, I agree.

[courting_glory]

I know. How could they expect peasants to govern themselves? It's really no wonder their town fell apart...

[strike_you_out]

My guess: something that can create illusions.

[courting_glory]

Illusions? Then you're suggesting that none of this is real?

[strike_you_out]

Possibly.

Or it began as an illusion and became a reality.

[courting_glory]

......

If the illusion became reality, then it isn't an illusion.

[sveariket]

't seems t' b' "Russian".

[There is always someone who's more confused.]

[courting_glory]

The Russia I'm familiar with doesn't have any such thing...

[sveariket]

[No idea who you are but agreeing.] I don't.

[courting_glory]

I honestly can't imagine any country conceiving of a system that encourages the nobility to work the fields with peasants.

[Enlightened absolutist over here...]

[grand_theft_moe]

Communism is a philosophy that advocates communal ownership of wealth and means of production. It remains largely untested.

[courting_glory]

That's completely ridiculous. Such a system would never work.

[grand_theft_moe]

Quite a few people believe in it.

[weiss_tank]

I don't know much about it I'm afraid, I just know that it caused a huge amount of tension between the US and the USSR.

[courting_glory]

Clearly, if it led to such a brutal war. You'd think that either of those countries would have some sense of how to conduct proper warfare....

[weiss_tank]

Brutal war? Well I guess in this world. In mine it was a 'Cold War' with neither side makin' a move or nothin' till the USSR fell apart.