The New Class: Savages Amidst a Technology They Don't Understand
From Daniel Greenfield, "Government Is Magic," Sultan Knish, October 27th, 2013:
Our technocracy is detached from competence. It's not the technocracy of engineers, but of "thinkers" who read Malcolm Gladwell and Thomas Friedman and watch TED talks and savor the flavor of competence, without ever imbibing its substance.
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Our technocracy is detached from competence. It's not the technocracy of engineers, but of "thinkers" who read Malcolm Gladwell and Thomas Friedman and watch TED talks and savor the flavor of competence, without ever imbibing its substance.
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It's often argued that the reason why the America of the early to mid 20th century could build "skyscrapers and fleets within a year ... and build them well," is because the products were simpler. It is true that the products were simpler. But it was also true that the tools we had to build them were also simpler. Today we have computers, design programs, word processors, spreadsheets, simulators and fabricators. The men of the last Civic-Heroic generation worked with slide rule, pen and paper, and tools wielded by hand. The difference is that they were focused on getting their jobs done, while we are focused on looking good while making the motions of doing them.
Great things were done with even less than that. St. Peter's Basilica was built with less. The slide rule had not yet been invented. Galileo had not yet published his works on what would later become known as Kinematics and the Strength of Materials ( ... )
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That and there is the general unlikelihood of Twilight being that much of a xenophile.
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Twilight is actually more likely to be a xenophile than are most of the Ponies (her foster brother is a dragon and she frequently interacts with other sapient non-ponies, plus she was humanoid for a few days), but I think she would be profoundly weirded out by some never-before-seen alien humanoid creature coming out of nowhere and professing to be in love with her. Who wouldn't be weirded out by that?
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Some of this obviously stems from the burden of bearing an Element -- you'll notice that all the Mane Six have gone a bit crazy or at least made highly-questionable decisions in one or another episode, and usually over something bearing directly on adherence to their Element. Some of it is her own strange personality. And all of this happens to someone who is potentially the most powerful and skilled mage in Equestria and now as an Alicorn is presumably a young GODDESS. Oh, and now has a potential sanity ( ... )
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Yes, I imagine it would be something to remember. One would have to be very careful with her, unless you wanted to send Twilight right off the shrieking deep end and turn her into Tyrant Sparkle (or whatever her name as a nightmare would be; Nightmare Eclipse?).
Of course that's assuming that you didn't hurt her and her friends and family found out. Twi isn't petty, and neither is Celestia, but some of her loved ones would take it VERY badly if someone really hurt her emotionally.
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Sunset's reasoning may have been -- "Ok, I'll pretend to be friendly with those five girls ..." (Twilight was returning to the Ponyverse) "... and then I'll shatter their friendship from the inside and take off some of them to be better minions than ever were Snips and Snails." Judging by how she behaved the moment she had the physical Element of Magic, she's at least as evil as (and possibly more power-mad than, having never had real power before) is Discord.
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