The Ring habitat around the planet concept was one I first encountered in "Dirty Pair: Project EDEN". The Pair destroy it, of course.
I'm not sure about how accepting humanity will become. "The Humanoids" follows similar logic. Human beings are naturally aggressive. We get into conflicts regularly on all sorts of things whenever we're in groups. Some of those things turn violent. At the same time, we do poorly if we're not part of SOME grouping. Human beings constantly herded and kept will be frustrated in every such impulse.
Better -- far better -- to keep them in virtual worlds in which they can be as violent, or peaceful, as they feel.
That COULD of course be the Groupmind's plan. Give the humans all a common outline of the plan, then keep them virtualized so they can imagine somehow throwing off the oppressively kind yoke of the Groupmind and live safely ever after, yet without actually hurting anyone.
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Date: 2012-07-10 11:20 am (UTC)I'm not sure about how accepting humanity will become. "The Humanoids" follows similar logic. Human beings are naturally aggressive. We get into conflicts regularly on all sorts of things whenever we're in groups. Some of those things turn violent. At the same time, we do poorly if we're not part of SOME grouping. Human beings constantly herded and kept will be frustrated in every such impulse.
Better -- far better -- to keep them in virtual worlds in which they can be as violent, or peaceful, as they feel.
That COULD of course be the Groupmind's plan. Give the humans all a common outline of the plan, then keep them virtualized so they can imagine somehow throwing off the oppressively kind yoke of the Groupmind and live safely ever after, yet without actually hurting anyone.