Intergalactic Summit

I think that people misunderstand something about the Amarr. We love our old fashioned paper books. The rest of the cluster might use datapads, but they are missing out. There's nothing like the tactile feel of paper in one's hands.
Why, the Court Chamberlain's printing press takes up an entire moon!

Respectfully, you're mistaking something whose bones can be picked over for a living, breathing idea. It's the difference between "religion" and "mythology."

If basically no one really believes something anymore, for this purpose, it's dead. Not that it can't come back, but it probably won't look all that much the same even if it does.

Now this, I'm also curious about. On one hand, it seems like a lot to insist that they burn only existing effigies. On the other ... uh. Yeah. Doesn't printing it just risk accidentally spreading it further if a few bales fall off the transport?

... maybe they could have some sort of festival involving data devices, large hammers, and, I don't know, a bunch of brooms, after?

You do realise that the idea is going to flee to the Federation and all the dark places and wait to fester and resurface in mutated forms.

Remind me how the squashing of the Sani Sabik went.

Ideas, like demagogues, can't simply be eradicated with no consequence. They have to be discredited first lest you risk turning them into martyrs.

The Amarr tried that with the Sabik and all that did was simply driving them away to fester somewhere else. As a matter of fact, during the Amarr Empire's weaker days, the heretical idea faced a resurgence within the Amarr Empire. Had you forgotten about Karsoth? The idea within the Amarr Empire wasn't eradicated at all, it simply went underground and silently spread like a virus with a very long incubation period.

The Amarr tried that with the Minmatar and all it did was cause a series of murmurings, minor uprisings, silent resistance and etc that cumulatively led to the Minmatar Rebellion. The repression did not kill the idea, the idea morph into a constantly metastasizing cancer.

Heck, the Caldari State attempted to squash the ideas of Revolution and look where it got them. Tibus Heth!

Repressions do not kill ideas, only suppress them. Just as how longer dormancy periods lead to ever more violent seismic events, the longer an idea is suppressed the more more damaging the uprising/resurgence when it inevitably breaks out.

Eradication simply does not work.

An idea is going to stay, like it or not. What really needs to be done is to demonstrate that the idea is ludicrously daft. It has to be defanged before it can be filed away and eventually be forgotten (and perhaps be dug up, only to have texts refuting said idea also be dug up that makes the whole thing look ridiculous enough that they will be taken as historical curiosity than anything worth following).

Squashing an idea before it's thoroughly addressed and refuted sends all the wrong messages. It suggests that the idea has merit. It leads to the audience taking the idea and silently spread it around and nurture its fire. Given time, it will grow and conflagrate and there will be another Sabik and another Rebellion. The idea has to be addressed, its merits debated, refuted and ridiculed, so that those who didn't already buy into the idea will see it as nonsense, get the message that buying the idea makes them look like idiots and be discouraged from taking it up. Then the idea will not stick, will be relegated into the fringes and its spread contained or, at least, much easier to manage.

And the next time somebody else tries to sell the idea again, dig up all the records that demonstrated that the idea is daft, show it and use it as refutation material, and the idea becomes harmless.

Mmm, I had a feeling if I waited until today someone else might pick up the torch. I didn't expect it to be so eloquently put though.

"What they said."

Alternatively, I guess you can also turn down the light, but that sounds a bit nihilistic said like that...

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More seriously though, to all those above that seem to held a few examples as a true statement of general facts, please note that the case of the Udorians, and especially the Ealur, among other crushed civilization by the Amarrian might, are relegated in their original form to mythos. What truly continues to live from that mythos has long been incorporated into the Amarrian culture, the same way Amarrian culture has been imprinted on their own. They are standing historical examples of a full cultural assimilation.

On the other hands, the Empire also has indeed plenty examples where their attempts have not been successful, the Minmatar being a prime example of it, although it is debatable either it would have succeeded or not without all the external help that went to their benefit, to begin with.

Heresies like the Sabik or EoM, too, are good examples as well.

Nauplius is satire. Intentionally or not.

I'll concede that he's ludicrous. As an act, though, he's way overdone.