Kitty Jones (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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maskormenace2016-10-19 09:26 am
rathercommon) wrote in maskormenace2016-10-19 09:26 am
Entry tags:
- † cassandra pentaghast | seeker of truth,
- † charles xavier | professor x,
- † damen | n/a,
- † darlene | n/a,
- † death the kid | n/a,
- † hunk | the yellow paladin,
- † jayden revell | mouse,
- † kitty jones | n/a,
- † miles vorkosigan | admiral naismith,
- † sarissa theron | n/a,
- † the (twelfth) doctor | stop that,
- † victor s court | n/a
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[ Oh, look, it's Kitty Jones. She seems a little tired - though you'd only know it by looking at her. Her voice is unchanged from normal. Indeed, she speaks with her typical firm bubbliness - a cheerful, kindly tone and an adorably youthful London accent obscuring the fact that her speech is (as usual) a bit on the manipulative/calculating/forceful/aggressive side. ]
Hullo, all. First, a job offer. I run a charity garage. It does pretty good work - we fix up and build really, really good cars, and sell 'em to the richer members of the local populace, and then the proceeds go to fund public transit in Heropa. Anyway. I recently... [ Just a little flicker in her smile. ] Lost an employee. So if there's anyone out there who's good with cars or mechanics or whatever, I definitely want you.
[ And now to the less businesslike portion of her announcement: ]
Anyway. Obviously there's been a lot of talk of elections lately, and there's also been a lot of cynicism about the whole electoral process. For obvious reasons. Since there are some politicians who are lunatic idiots. So I guess I just wanted to throw this out there, 'cause all of you have so much different experience from different worlds.
Who had power, where you're from? What was the government like? And were they good - just - or unjust? What do you think's the best form of government? How much power should the people in charge have?
And if you could build a government, build a country from scratch, what would it look like? Would you limit the freedom of the press, or would everyone have the right to speak? Would you build social programs, or would you leave people to fend for themselves? Would you go after warfare and expanding your borders, or would people live in peace?
[ These questions are a little bit leading. Perhaps. ]
Anyway. Share your thoughts, please.
Hullo, all. First, a job offer. I run a charity garage. It does pretty good work - we fix up and build really, really good cars, and sell 'em to the richer members of the local populace, and then the proceeds go to fund public transit in Heropa. Anyway. I recently... [ Just a little flicker in her smile. ] Lost an employee. So if there's anyone out there who's good with cars or mechanics or whatever, I definitely want you.
[ And now to the less businesslike portion of her announcement: ]
Anyway. Obviously there's been a lot of talk of elections lately, and there's also been a lot of cynicism about the whole electoral process. For obvious reasons. Since there are some politicians who are lunatic idiots. So I guess I just wanted to throw this out there, 'cause all of you have so much different experience from different worlds.
Who had power, where you're from? What was the government like? And were they good - just - or unjust? What do you think's the best form of government? How much power should the people in charge have?
And if you could build a government, build a country from scratch, what would it look like? Would you limit the freedom of the press, or would everyone have the right to speak? Would you build social programs, or would you leave people to fend for themselves? Would you go after warfare and expanding your borders, or would people live in peace?
[ These questions are a little bit leading. Perhaps. ]
Anyway. Share your thoughts, please.
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There are things here that are bloody awful. No question about that. But it's a democracy, and democracies have room for voices to be heard. So I'm going to point out what's bloody awful without any attempts at revolution.
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[ That's what he's really getting at. Dissent, in general, is something that Damen - a real live military dictator - would discourage, too. ]
What is it that you disagree with?
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Their avenues of speech are choked off. Books are censored. Newspapers, too. Sometimes violence is used - a man's arms were broken, once, when he tried to speak publicly.
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I think you would not much like the world that I am from.
[ Because there's newspapers that are censored, and then there's a world with no newspapers. There's broken arms, and then execution for treachery.
This world is a place with more freedom than Damen has ever seen. ]
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The Kyroi rule their territories, and pledge loyalty to the King, who makes decisions. To question him would be to challenge his authority, and that would be treason. A person can decide where they stand, but they live with the consequences. Or die because of them.
[ The views she's explained to him are the very opposite of all of that. He doesn't think she would do well in Akielos. He knows how his father would have responded to dissent. It would be expected of Damen, too. ]
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[ Her smile turns a little ironic. ]
Your world sounds rather a lot like mine.
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[ He lifts his eyebrows. ]
You will understand, then, why this world seems very free to me. And why I think there is more to preserve than change.
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I cannot go that far, yet. Perhaps I will someday.