Comments | gaiaanarchy: FIC: City of Man by Gaia McShep (Maquerade Challenge)

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FIC: City of Man by Gaia McShep (Maquerade Challenge)

Mar 10, 2007 16:13

Title: City of Man
Author: Gaia (gaiaanarchyCharacters/Pairing: McShep, Elizabeth/Branton ( Read more... )

het, mcshep, fic

Comments 6

_workinprogress March 10 2007, 21:30:47 UTC

acks! none of the tags are working.

gaiaanarchy March 10 2007, 21:42:17 UTC

Oops, my bad. I wasn't even posting to the right place! Duh! It's fixed, though:

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rensreality101 March 11 2007, 05:40:43 UTC

Okay, I am doing this now before I get busy and days go by and it becomes too late. (happens to me a lot)

I love how you write stories that linger. Days from now little pieces of this will still be floating around in my head and I will still be trying to understand just how the story made me feel and why those feelings.

Re: Sidenote _workinprogress March 12 2007, 15:05:37 UTC

So I'm pretty much a geek, too. And I just had to check out the article you linked to about work ethics. I did some reading some time back, but in a slightly different area of the topic.

First I was all Yay! My home country is mentioned!
And then it was a little scary when it came to the part about Catholics looking more 'benevolent' upon sinners (losers) and how they preferred an old school humanistic approach to learning.
Because *waves hand* bullseye.
My brother in law (protestant) and I pretty much don't get along because his world view is all about capitalism and Capital.
Which, you know, isn't monumental, but I thought I'd share my little naive geek moment.

(sorry for the double post; sometimes I hit the send button too quickly)

Re: Sidenote _workinprogress March 12 2007, 15:08:55 UTC

and okay, now I feel stupid.
Becuase I thought something felt familiar. **headdesk*. It's a testament to how much I did not pay attention in university that I didn't recognize a Max Weber article.
He pretty much was god to a lot of the teachers. (and well, what's a god if they can't tear apart some of his stuff once in a while. But it always, always comes down to his definition of power. Even when you aren't talking about politics. I may not remember much, but some things you never forget)

Re: Sidenote gaiaanarchy March 12 2007, 15:33:06 UTC

I know what you mean. While on one hand I love a lot of his stuff (including the idea of the state as the legitimate use of force), I'm also unsure about the truth of this article. I believe that perhaps the protestant work ethic had something to do with the spirit of capitalism, but there are also lots of other reasons that could contribute - the nature of the american colonies themselves, for example - the fact that the people in new england didn't have the climate for a slave economy, nor mining rights or anything particularly useful, and the fact that they only had a small window in which to plant/harvest etc. meant a more efficient use of time/energy (one could say the same thing about the ancient civilizations of the Andes compared with tropical americas ( ... )