To: Harmless Teddy Bear
It went deeper than that. It was the old Michael Moorecock Order Vs. Chaos theme. Absolute subjugation to Order Vs. Absolute subjugation to Chaos.
In real life, there is no First One to help the antagonists come to higher realization. There is only one prevailing over the other. The epistemology of the whole thing was dissatisfying to me.
Chalk it up to a personality flaw on my part...
47,217 posted on
11/29/2004 7:15:32 PM PST by
Dead Corpse
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To: Dead Corpse
Mmmm I understand but the problem was the either side winning would have been unsatisfactory too.
Absolute subjugation to Order or Absolute subjugation to Chaos can only be obtained when there is someone to subjugate. That was what was going to be denied.
Of course real life is quite different but we are not dealing with multi-thousand year old beings in real life either.Our adversaries are not so formidable. And yet it is still true that the one who refuses to yield is in the end the one who wins.
47,231 posted on
11/29/2004 7:33:55 PM PST by
Harmless Teddy Bear
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