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5/18/2025, 4:28:57 AM
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>Humans don't benefit from social disorder. The fact we are having scientific and technogical booms every single year is because we are living in the most peaceful era ever on the face of earth (if you live in the first world, anyway...)
I'm not so sure, like drone technology, as an example, has probably advanced greatly in the last three years due to the war in Ukraine alone and it's not just things like war that push technology, competition in the marketplace disruption as some people might say, drives companies to produce better goods, when the government choices winners in the market, such as with healthcare, we don't get nearly the same amount of advancement.
But troublesome topics aside, What I'm trying to express is that, for humans and their society, it's better for trauma to happen all at once, rather then over time. It's like a buffalo choosing to run through the storm because it'll get through the rain faster and it'll be stronger for it then if he just waited for it to pass above him.
Considered from another perspective, Youkai can effectively live forever, so all risks become way more costly because they have eternity to lose, while a human who lives their young life ignorant and wants to pass on a legacy as they grow old will have a much greater sense of risk taking. Higher risks tasks are much more rewarding in terms of strength, experience, and value, so humans would naturally be favored by an environment that was volatile while quasi-immortals would quickly be out-competed, which is what I believe really happened to Youkai in the outside world and a big reason Mamizou fears them.
I've drafted a bunch of stories about Humans who have to adapt to Gensokyo and I've noticed the inflection point, where they go from being aliens to accepted, is always when they take some principled risk, like the difference between saying "oh man, a business that did this would make so much money!" and actually trying it, I've always thought of it as just a way to make the story interesting, but now I think it connects to a more primordial need of man to be engaged in turmoil, or in it's absence, create it.
>Calling her a hag behind her back might make things harder for you. Oni can smell craven things like that, you know?
She's a mature lady and probably appreciates being teased a tad. Push and pull.
>Humans don't benefit from social disorder. The fact we are having scientific and technogical booms every single year is because we are living in the most peaceful era ever on the face of earth (if you live in the first world, anyway...)
I'm not so sure, like drone technology, as an example, has probably advanced greatly in the last three years due to the war in Ukraine alone and it's not just things like war that push technology, competition in the marketplace disruption as some people might say, drives companies to produce better goods, when the government choices winners in the market, such as with healthcare, we don't get nearly the same amount of advancement.
But troublesome topics aside, What I'm trying to express is that, for humans and their society, it's better for trauma to happen all at once, rather then over time. It's like a buffalo choosing to run through the storm because it'll get through the rain faster and it'll be stronger for it then if he just waited for it to pass above him.
Considered from another perspective, Youkai can effectively live forever, so all risks become way more costly because they have eternity to lose, while a human who lives their young life ignorant and wants to pass on a legacy as they grow old will have a much greater sense of risk taking. Higher risks tasks are much more rewarding in terms of strength, experience, and value, so humans would naturally be favored by an environment that was volatile while quasi-immortals would quickly be out-competed, which is what I believe really happened to Youkai in the outside world and a big reason Mamizou fears them.
I've drafted a bunch of stories about Humans who have to adapt to Gensokyo and I've noticed the inflection point, where they go from being aliens to accepted, is always when they take some principled risk, like the difference between saying "oh man, a business that did this would make so much money!" and actually trying it, I've always thought of it as just a way to make the story interesting, but now I think it connects to a more primordial need of man to be engaged in turmoil, or in it's absence, create it.
>Calling her a hag behind her back might make things harder for you. Oni can smell craven things like that, you know?
She's a mature lady and probably appreciates being teased a tad. Push and pull.
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