“Well, why didn’t the silly Bloomians think of that?” “Religion, I imagine, friend Chance. Religion serves to… — Sheri S. Tepper
“Well, why didn’t the silly Bloomians think of that?”
“Religion, I imagine, friend Chance. Religion serves to prevent thought in many cases, and I’d say it had done so here. They started with the presumption that anything as complex as the mill must exist for a good reason. Then they spent all their time inventing a good reason—and some god to be responsible for it—rather than looking for a sensible solution to their problem.”
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“I do not like the thought of compulsion.”
He shook his head at me. “Not compulsion, Jinian. Information, more like. It is as though I had been given a map which showed both the good roads and the swamps. Is it compulsion to avoid the swamps if one knows they are there?”
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This is the problem with too much Schooling. One learns to manipulate the labels in a way that the Gamesmistresses approve, and one doesn’t realize that things do not always act in accordance with the labels in the real world. One doesn’t realize that the labels, come to that, are often wrong.
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We had what we thought was the answer and we troubled to look no further.
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