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Back in the days of Shadow of the Hegemon, and Shodow Puppets, Locke and Demosthenes, aka Peter Wiggan ruled public oppinion through the nets. I was wondering if there are any modern day "lockes" or "Demosthenes" or major public forums were they would would write.
Any and all info would be appreciated, or gmail me at my own name.
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But is there any major forums that millions of people go to see? I haven't seen any yet. Seems kind of odd....
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quote: I don't think an actual internet equivalent exists. Our society has not integrated the nets in any way similar to what was portrayed in Ender's Game.
Exactly. It would be interesting though to see someone pull off a forum that works similar to those described in the Ender books.
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quote:It would be interesting though to see someone pull off a forum that works similar to those described in the Ender books.
awww man, the spam on that board would be unbearable!
It would also be damn hard to keep up with new submissions with so many posters... don't know how it would work.
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quote:awww man, the spam on that board would be unbearable!
It would also be damn hard to keep up with new submissions with so many posters... don't know how it would work. [/QB]
Post Timer of 10 minutes. It would also keep morons from posting stuff, most posts would actually be well thought out.
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if i remember correctly, when Peter and Val were first getting started, they had to use their dad's account to get access to the more influential forums, and from there they were invited by others into the even more influential forums... to me it didnt sound like just every jo schmo was able to access these forums.
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And from that day forth alluvion became known as....*drum roll*.......the repetitive thread killer. Tracking down evil, repetitive, newbies wont stop bringing them back threads and putting them into the gutter once and for all.
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Now here's something I've thought of way too often! Taking to mind that when this book was written, the internet was practically nonexistent. I'd say the closest thing to this kind of public access is the net itself. Wanna be influential, get yourself a web site and start posting opinions. However the way our government is going, if you do end up having some kind of influence, expect the FBI to come knocking on your door. My guess is that Enders parents already had high positions within the government, hence why Peter never 'disappeared'
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OSC took an ever so slightly less cynical view of the future then those sci-fi authors who would have had it run by Men In Black Posts: 95 | Registered: May 2005
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quote:Originally posted by Dink: Now here's something I've thought of way too often! Taking to mind that when this book was written, the internet was practically nonexistent. I'd say the closest thing to this kind of public access is the net itself. Wanna be influential, get yourself a web site and start posting opinions. However the way our government is going, if you do end up having some kind of influence, expect the FBI to come knocking on your door. My guess is that Enders parents already had high positions within the government, hence why Peter never 'disappeared'
Peter's Dad (John Paul) had some sort of high ranking position in the hegemon office, Theresa (Peter's mother) was a scienist. (per the short story anthology "First Meetings in the Enderverse")
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I know they WANTED as hinted in the short story(s) to try to overthrow/replace the Hegemony since the percieved of it at the time as being immoral and allowing evil/tyranical countries to hold their power. Now we can safely say that the IF put them together knowing they'll snap together to produce the child they need to save the world BUT what I find interesting now is that because of their involvment they seem to have been unable to pursue their aims beyond a certain point (career wise) since becomming parents. I geuss they got too distracted in their home job.
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Look at the Daou Report at Salon.com. It collects several top blogs from the left and right. Always something interesting there - and a good structure for starting a blog of your own with Radio Userland.
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Well you already claimed to be the threadkiller and as anyone nows that unless you make like a superhero team that you can only have one solo hero in anyone city at a time. So I would have to go find a new city which I don't want to do. So do you whant to make a team then?
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I never claimed to be a "threadkiller". Those are the auspices and audacities of a cadre-kin of malicious individuals who would rather mock than make.
Threadkilling is not for the weak at heart...
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If you want to see some radical viewpoints, go to http://maddox.xmission.com/ If you're talking about a serious forum to debate current events and politics in today's world, I'm sure you would actually find this interesting. www.ebaumsworld.com/forum Scroll down to the Current Events section. They like talking about a lot of things that go on in today's world, especially with Bush, Iraq, Jackson, etc. It can get pretty hot sometimes, and some topics like abortion, death penalty, and the Church have sort of been beat into the ground there, but it's still interesting.
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