Yang is a fraud

[Mr. President]

Originally posted by Frankychan
Disciples of Yang:

Alinestra Covelia
Lazarus
HongHu
Frankychan

....anymore? We be kicking it, Hive-style up in this mutha frizzin hiz-ouse!

I usually play Morgan or Deirdre (because they're the only ones I'm capable of playing) but Chairman Yang is way cool.

[Enigma_Nova]

Drat. Where the hell are the Uni and CyCon teams?

[jtsisyoda]

I believe all leaders are frauds to some degree. Their followers, too, usually believe less than they let on.

[The Mad Monk]

Well, if you're born into a given faction, it's likely you've been indoctirinated with the philosophy to such an extant that other factions really don't make any sense. OTOH, if you are in such a situation, you are likely to hide any doubts you personally have regarding that doctrine. So your postulation is correct...to an extent.

[Barinthus]

Political refugees for instance

[Starfarer]

I have found that Yang's paradise, like all utopias, have several fatal flaws that will never be soothed to complacency. The mere fact that one of his important foremans, Domai, revolted and threw off his yoke is enough to easily display the problems in Yang's doctrines.

The "sleeping demons", as our dear law-obsessed Lal would put it.

I don't believe Yang to be a fraud... But then, most madmen truly believe their own drivel.

As well, most madmen do not realize until too late that they are dead wrong.

Or just dead.

Humans aren't set up for a hive-mind... and to attempt to create one?

Foolishness. But then, like all tyrants, it would likely be difficult to convince him of this...

All I am left to wonder now is how long before the next revolution?

*grin*

And now I skip away into the darkness of the datalinks, where I can, perchance, stay away from the police that will no doubt be sicced on my head for thinking against the collective.

Ta!

[Snowflake]

The really sad part though, to any of the philosophy, is that although we may lack people who fully understand the philosophy, but we would never lack people who believe they know what they are talking about and we would never lack people who believe they have found the exact deadly flaw of that philosophy.

[jtsisyoda]

Long on critics and cynics, short on learners and searchers? Probably.

[#endgame]

And still the score is 50/50

[Illuminatus]

It is sad that they are people who talk one and do another like Yang. His Utopia is just another type of Police State. There are better totalitarian systems.

[jtsisyoda]

Better totalitarian systems? I'd like to hear more about this idea of benevolent oppression.

[Illuminatus]

Huxley

[Illuminatus]

Remember: Atlantis is basically a totalitarian society. To bad it sank in sea

[Zero]

Fools. Yangs cry in the punishment sphere is a battle cry, telling yall "is this the best you can do? bring it on!"

[Illuminatus]

"bring it on, I can shout even louder in agony"