Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDLT - July 2016
JimC:
I think you could equally argue that Alice' town, maybe the whole planet is deliberately and by choice maintained at a Green activists dream level of a balanced low energy input low output society. There are, I think, hints of that in Alice's early speeches to Ardent.
There's a lot not made plain about how the society works, but it could be argued that it's liable to take as much intelligence and organisation to maintain a static balanced low input society apparently without significant hunger or disease as it does to maintain our unbalanced expansion.
BenRG:
The reason why there has been no rebound is a strong cultural aversion to doing so.
I've got the feeling that, post-Blink, those still on Earth were mostly either technophobic or technology-ambivalent. They blamed technology for the war and the losses of The Blink and wanted to use only the bare minimum that they needed. The rest was cast aside. I wouldn't be surprised if, as in A Candicle for Lebowitz, those with technological skills were lynched and scientific and technical libraries were mostly destroyed.
Five thousand years later, technology above early industrial age is considered magic and those who use it witches and wizards.
KOK:
Technology aversion lasted 5000 years?
BenRG:
No, it became normalised into the culture to the point where no-one even questions it anymore when the elders tell the horror stories about what the 'tech-magic' did in the past and how the know-it-alls had to be exiled into space to stop them from causing trouble with it.
Of course, coverage isn't 100% - Ellie's archeophiles are proof of that but they are probably still considered eccentrics at best or heretics at worst.
wlewisiii:
--- Quote from: KOK on 22 Jul 2016, 00:16 ---Technology aversion lasted 5000 years?
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Easy. See Butlerian Jihad for another fictional take on the concept.
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