Chapter XXXI: Progress
The advancements of other worlds, the limited berth of knowledge the writings this world leaves from here and there on these shelves, do leave us with an inkling of several interesting prospects...
What was considered the cutting edge of discovery, in your own worlds? Do the circumstances here not feel primitive and restrained, physically or intellectually confined, to some of you? Under-stimulating? How that must frustrate those of you with the ability to feel such hopeless restlessness.
Again, the lack of technological tools at our disposal can be considered a problem, but I do wonder, sometimes, if we simply have not been scouring the right places. All in all we remain...so idle, so resigned...waiting, thoughtless. For the next visionary stroke from the Tower? For the next leader to take up a noble banner and purpose?
A symposium for new ideas may prove fruitful.
What was considered the cutting edge of discovery, in your own worlds? Do the circumstances here not feel primitive and restrained, physically or intellectually confined, to some of you? Under-stimulating? How that must frustrate those of you with the ability to feel such hopeless restlessness.
Again, the lack of technological tools at our disposal can be considered a problem, but I do wonder, sometimes, if we simply have not been scouring the right places. All in all we remain...so idle, so resigned...waiting, thoughtless. For the next visionary stroke from the Tower? For the next leader to take up a noble banner and purpose?
A symposium for new ideas may prove fruitful.