This is awesome; I'm very excited for this series. SMAC is my favorite game and I may have quoted Deirdre Skye in my philosophy thesis. I'll be looking forward to the duel of ideas with Chairman Yang - but for the moment, it seems I've got to brush up on my D&G.
Maybe I don't know enough about Buddhism but I saw Yang as something like spirituality stripped of spirit, or almost a Hegel that gets cut down to a pure materialism.
Just as single-celled organisms come together into multicellular life, Yang wants humans to come together into a collective in which their individuality is wholly subsumed. Naturally, as head of that collective, he has the easiest time identifying with the collective. A society in which everyone is expected to say, "I am the state" is naturally easiest on whoever holds the position of chairman.
This is awesome; I'm very excited for this series. SMAC is my favorite game and I may have quoted Deirdre Skye in my philosophy thesis. I'll be looking forward to the duel of ideas with Chairman Yang - but for the moment, it seems I've got to brush up on my D&G.
Aw thanks!
Yang is such an weird figure; I'm still not sure how to peg him, precisely. Mahayana legalism?
Maybe I don't know enough about Buddhism but I saw Yang as something like spirituality stripped of spirit, or almost a Hegel that gets cut down to a pure materialism.
Just as single-celled organisms come together into multicellular life, Yang wants humans to come together into a collective in which their individuality is wholly subsumed. Naturally, as head of that collective, he has the easiest time identifying with the collective. A society in which everyone is expected to say, "I am the state" is naturally easiest on whoever holds the position of chairman.