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[10 June] Happy Holiday to All Caldari!
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Halcyon Ember
Repracor Industries
#21 - 2017-06-14 15:21:48 UTC
Jason Galente wrote:

The more exotic places you visit, the more you'll see the people are essentially the same.

Selling clothes would be hell if we weren't

Queen of Chocolate
Malthus Aurelius
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#22 - 2017-06-14 16:52:03 UTC
Jason Galente wrote:


You really shouldn't generalize. The defining aspects of a culture are often made by its elites, its highly educated bourgeoisie (And there is never even a consensus there). Not its average family. Billions of Gallenteans lead rather normal lives, hold quiet faiths, traditions, and enjoy simple community life. This is especially true of the Jin-Mei, Intaki, and Mannar. The city doesn't define the country, the elite do not define the commoners. And the Federation doesn't define its member states.

This is true everywhere, by the way, much as we like to ignore it.

I travelled the Amarr Empire for years, and was stunned by how many quiet heretics and atheists I found.

I lived and did business in the conservative State for years, and was stunned by what I saw there behind closed doors, absent public appearances. And what I saw for sale.

I've taken many lessons from my mother on what the Republic was like (though I've never stayed here long). From what she told me of her home, it was a vibrant mix of tribes but also a developing world, fighting its poverty head on, and establishing its democratic republic to fight the negative aspects of the tribe system, whilst trying to preserve its roots at the same time. Metamorphosis was common here, contrary to the stereotype of the tribes being stuck in their ways. I've corroborated this with the testimony of many Matari friends and many, many books.

Things are rarely so simple as, perhaps, our leaders, or the media, lay them out to be. The more exotic places you visit, the more you'll see the people are essentially the same.


Yeah, I can agree with that, albeit from an opposite spectrum. Spent most of my life on a small fringe mining station, and at the base level, we were all more or less the same. It's a close loop circuit, and the only outside visitation people working in security or ore processing and refinement get are the occasional space-trucker hauling our ore off to a higher-grade industrial complex.

When your work defines you, that's all there is to go off of. When I went through capsuleer training, it was a culture shock to say the least; yet for so many others that travel the stars, this is the norm. I still hang around miners, they're who I know, but I don't think I'll be taking outside knowledge for granted anymore. Diversity in your crew can give some valuable insight into possible solutions for your issues. That, and some interesting drinking stories.

I ran off topic though; As a former SuVee Station Security Operative, I've seen people catch hell for not following orders, and I've seen what happens when orders aren't followed; People die - sometimes your closest friends. The difference between a Dreadnaught pilot and a security guard is the scale of action and responsibility. I messed up, a handful of people might die. A commander messes up, and you lose fleets.

We're lucky that battle rolled in our favor, but it would have set a very deadly precedent had insubordination on that level gone unpunished. Had that weapon deployment actually proven important, we could've stood to lose more men to your fleets and more territory. - Not to say that one man's life is more than another, it's just the nature of war when you have a set enemy.

I'm just thankful for the sacrifices that led to the victory.
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