#then again columbians seem americanlly myopic and maybe then it just wouldnt have the sentiment to be global. i dont know

[myrfing]

another example of the thing i liked about this event…the columbian ideal of “all men are created equal” is just not lived up to and the contradiction it creates in people raised within it to believe in liberty, justice, progress, and equality but not really being able to live life according to those ideals unless you have power and money which…makes it moot in the first place. it works exactly the same in leithanian as it does in columbia, it’s just not a part of explicit law; policies written to punish for other things like “not having money for insurance” will eventually take out the undesireables or have them be enslaved to labor for the powerful in either case. and then it is not the “fault” of the state, it’s just the homeless and the poor and the impoverished didn’t do enough and are paying a due consequence.

loken was dorothy’s teacher; it’s obvious that he had a great deal of influence on her and both sought to pursue the ideal that “all people are born equal” as a pure concept versus taking into account for all the elements that create inequity because that contradiction is too bizarre to face. our society values fairness and equality; so why is this not reflected in reality? + being indunated with the idea since birth that your poverty and misfortune is always 100% your personal intrinsic individual responsibility and that you must simply have lacked talent or not worked hard if you end up in the margins. dorothy takes it one step forward from her teacher and says “it’s because didn’t have the opportunity to try….because of something they lack” which is also not the problem, the problem is that columbia at its core doesn’t really care about the value of people’s lives or efforts at all. all those ideals are pretty much just nothing and were a total lie regardless of if you made everyone intrinsically “equal” or not. because they already are, as humans, and this was ignored, because it’s all made to mantain a status quo and concentrate power in the preexisting ruling class. the only thing that matters to them is how you can contribute to that; as cheap labor, or as a talented arms developer, or etc.

that all being said it is weird because “awaken” WOULD have drastically disrupted the status quo. because arts usage isn’t like, race, or sex, or something unquantifiable and dictated by immaterial constructed categories: it’s weaponry. the primary function of arts in the game that we see is destructive force. being bass boosted at arts casting is how multiple disenfranchised groups in the game have wrested some level of power and influence whereas they'd normally remain utterly at will of their rulers, i.e. the sarkaz, and reunion. and here’s where the writing gets ??? because the counterargument provided is that it’s too dangerous to give the unionized masses armed power and they would be coopted by the powerful anyway (something that’s kind of like, ubiquitous to every arkn storyline dealing with the subject of revolution lol):

at first silence’s comparison seems wonky (not even counting that last line because ??? that's everyone anyways) because the distribution of diablous shards is limited and within the hands of the ruling class already, and the transmitter by dorothy’s directive would be distributed to literally every single person in columbia at least, but. im guessing ferdinand’s/the colonel’s plan was to distribute the transmitter to a ton of columbian soldiers and officials and take over the hub by sheer numbers, and then carefully control the distribution of the transmitter…but doesn’t that just not account for the fact dorothy had her own literal lake of the stuff and is the sole person who understands the mechanism of her research and had originally developed the transmitter and “machine” for mass and indiscriminate distribution. and also of course at the birth of the machine this small group of original hub members who were loyal to her had the sole control of an entity that could teleport anywhere and completely alter the construct of anything at will. how did ferdinand realistically plan to seize control of it…AND THEY OBVIOUSLY DIDNT LMFAO BECAUSE IT JUST DISINTEGRATED ITSELF BECAUSE THE DUDES IN THE HUB WANTED IT TO? anyway i get it’s supposed to me a bizarre in-itself-not-fully-literal represenation of…well schmovement but man what…