It’s not just the President, the Lamian upper class is pretty big.
They have many, many children and grandchildren.
I wonder how many of them have had the modifications, and how many want them?
“Daaaaady…”
super soldiers (ss) .. the governments of the world ‘after WWII’ basically proved that a ss program was not cost effective , nor manageable in a long run.. cost = converting a existing soldier was too cost prohibitive an way to high failure rate ,, an no way to convert back.. then,, manageable = you run into that pesky thing ‘ free will ‘,, an brain washing turned most brain dead.. so.. unless you have a clone trooper program,, it will not work in the long run…
just saying…
.. Vanity Only… do you know how much is made each year in the US. on vanity only products .?? (anti ageing creams ,, 50.17 Billion in 2018, an projected to be over 500 billion in 2024.)
and how far would one go to to be ‘Vain’.. i mean , they inject crap in the eye, for the bold different look.!!! lets not forget , injecting poison (Botox = Bovine Toxin) to look younger ..
now lets look at Kelly .. no not to be vain.. but how much would you pay.? so your son did not have to suffer the loss of an arm..???
Disclaimer: Please note that I am in no way, shape, form,or fashion a proponent of chattel slavery. No WAY! No HOW! NEVER!
BUT!
If – I say again IF – the economics of slavery are so all-fired bad then how did it begin and -MUCH MORE IMPORTANTLY – HOW . . . DOES . . . IT . . . PERSIST!? Gotta be a reason for it.
The above question being posed, I do like our bard’s twist on a “rationale” for slavery. Personally, I do not believe that the economics of slavery are all that bad – at least in a pre/early industrial/technological civilization. Look at world history and you will see slavery in every culture/civilization that has existed. GOTTA be a reason for that. GOTTA BE!
Now please don’t hate me for asking the hard questions or articulating things most don’t to hear/read. Slavery made perfect economic sense in the antebellum South. In a time when “cotton was king” but before machines were developed to harvest it and gin (separate the fiber from the seeds) it, working human beings for room and board made good sense. Hell, before the invention of the horse collar a horse could not plow enough ground to grow enough to feed it. People were needed to pull plows. What I believe to be the most pernicious aspect of using Africans as slaves was the very fact that, morphologically,they ere so different/distinct. An escaped slave from Greece could easily hide in the Roman Empire. A Negroid in the Americas stuck out worse than a sore thumb. That also helped engender a sense of superiority in whites because a free white could always say to him/her self “I may be poorer’n dirt but at least I ain’t a slave.”
My two cents? You’re right. Slavery was already on the way out before the Civil War. It was the adoption of the hard horse collar and emerging technology such as the cotton gin that was ending slavery. The Civil War was about States Rights vs Federal power. You might say that a cold Civil War has begun now with things like sanctuary cities and states rights today.
I’ll let you readers continue the debate, if you wish. Could be interesting, I hope that all viewpoints are discussed. Respectfully, as always, of course.
No, I’m not from the South. Military brat and Army on my own, I’m from all over.
You are correct, Petercat. If the US had adopted the British way of ending slavery (attrition) there would not have been a war.
The cotton gin and steam engine would have ended slavery by economic pressure. But then, as today our elected officials decided that they were the elite and had to tell everyone else what was best for them. This culminated in a POTUS who was obsessed with not being a failure, which he defined as the Union dissolving on his watch. So the Constitution, as originally intended got trashed, millions of people died, and racial hatred became ingrained in the society. And before anyone starts foaming at the mouth and screaming about the South, may I remind you that the strongest remaining KKK presence in this country is in Indiana. And from a purely personal point of view, having traveled and worked in most of this country, the worst racists I’ve met are in northern Michigan.
You are spot on, Danny. The worst racism was always north of the Mason-Dixon Line. Bad as things were in the postbellum South, it was the North which created ghettos. Yes, in the postbellum South the streets on the “wrong side of the tracks” were often not paved and there was all the obvious whites-only/coloreds-only facilities etc. but it took the North to create ghettos.
hehe , personal experience.. kkk father, in the midwest (Neb) ,, then in the mid 90s , in a interracial marriage . moved into a kkk controlled town (denver) ,, but did not know till later.. (was wondering why the house market was so bad for us..)
apparently ,, i’ve been shot, i’ve been shot with an arrow, burnt alive, stabbed, bout a third scar tissue , and been clinically dead,..
have 7 firearm related incidents, in 4 states (all self defense.) one fatal, ‘not allowed to return to that state.’
tstorm,, actually a tornado – f5 in 75 watched it rip thru main street , from my roof, 5 blocks away…
Gary just bought the restaurant a month ago, or is this another one? A lot has happened in a month. I don’t know enough to comment on slavery except it is still alive and well all over the world. I believe it was getting to the obsolete stage in the south due to new inventions etc. as was stated earlier. I suppose slavery made economic sense (in a way) in Eygpt, Rome etc. you had captives for doing heavy work while leaving your own populace to support themselves and the country.
This story happening before The Fall explains why she was able to find refueling stations, less so why she was taking dirt track more-trail-than-roads, but that may have been to keep a low profile.
I thought giving your kid a sapient pet/companion/friend/step-sibling you would harvest for the kid if medically necessary was bad. Doing it for self-decoration … maybe resurfacing Lamia with asteroids isn’t such a bad idea.
And this would be even harder to undo than a tattoo. On the other hand, it would make your granddaughter harder to kidnap, with stronger and faster limbs, so I can see SOME self-excusing motivation.
I’m sure it won’t come to that — and Sgt Baker and his squad are evidence it shouldn’t, as were the two Bookist cops a while back, and lots of the humans on Catia. I’m just disgusted with the reminder of how low human depravity can go — like the cultists in the mountains with the kids in the cave out back.
Angel ,, looks like you just pasted the test…
ohh goddess nooo….
Angel’s story goes back farther than I Expected.
A President spending billions of dollars on a project primarily for reasons of personal vanity? Who would believe such a thing
It’s not just the President, the Lamian upper class is pretty big.
They have many, many children and grandchildren.
I wonder how many of them have had the modifications, and how many want them?
“Daaaaady…”
That is one sick aristocracy.
‘Working in a greenhouse.’ Cute, Cat-Man 😛 Hmmm Gary sounds like he might have a Bit more of a past than first appears.
Designer limb transplants, good Lord. And why do I feel like Bryan is going to have a role in the new government? Hm. ‘Minister of Information.’
Nah, Angel just prefers to have good people as friends, like Gaia.
And Gary can be friends with anyone, as long as they’re honest.
Hard to believe it is vanity only. Like a tat, it is forever. There has to be something else the upper class is after. Physical enhancement?
Physical enhancement…. ‘super’ soldiers.
super soldiers (ss) .. the governments of the world ‘after WWII’ basically proved that a ss program was not cost effective , nor manageable in a long run.. cost = converting a existing soldier was too cost prohibitive an way to high failure rate ,, an no way to convert back.. then,, manageable = you run into that pesky thing ‘ free will ‘,, an brain washing turned most brain dead.. so.. unless you have a clone trooper program,, it will not work in the long run…
just saying…
Got it! So, not something that can be done in bulk… but an ‘elite’ squad?
yeah,, a small one,, think Jason Borne….
“Super Soldier?” Would cat arms make you stronger? Cat legs make you faster? I can see the dark reasoning for that. SICKNESS!!!
.. Vanity Only… do you know how much is made each year in the US. on vanity only products .?? (anti ageing creams ,, 50.17 Billion in 2018, an projected to be over 500 billion in 2024.)
and how far would one go to to be ‘Vain’.. i mean , they inject crap in the eye, for the bold different look.!!! lets not forget , injecting poison (Botox = Bovine Toxin) to look younger ..
now lets look at Kelly .. no not to be vain.. but how much would you pay.? so your son did not have to suffer the loss of an arm..???
Yep, should have figured it’d be something like that…
Disclaimer: Please note that I am in no way, shape, form,or fashion a proponent of chattel slavery. No WAY! No HOW! NEVER!
BUT!
If – I say again IF – the economics of slavery are so all-fired bad then how did it begin and -MUCH MORE IMPORTANTLY – HOW . . . DOES . . . IT . . . PERSIST!? Gotta be a reason for it.
The above question being posed, I do like our bard’s twist on a “rationale” for slavery. Personally, I do not believe that the economics of slavery are all that bad – at least in a pre/early industrial/technological civilization. Look at world history and you will see slavery in every culture/civilization that has existed. GOTTA be a reason for that. GOTTA BE!
Now please don’t hate me for asking the hard questions or articulating things most don’t to hear/read. Slavery made perfect economic sense in the antebellum South. In a time when “cotton was king” but before machines were developed to harvest it and gin (separate the fiber from the seeds) it, working human beings for room and board made good sense. Hell, before the invention of the horse collar a horse could not plow enough ground to grow enough to feed it. People were needed to pull plows. What I believe to be the most pernicious aspect of using Africans as slaves was the very fact that, morphologically,they ere so different/distinct. An escaped slave from Greece could easily hide in the Roman Empire. A Negroid in the Americas stuck out worse than a sore thumb. That also helped engender a sense of superiority in whites because a free white could always say to him/her self “I may be poorer’n dirt but at least I ain’t a slave.”
My two cents? You’re right. Slavery was already on the way out before the Civil War. It was the adoption of the hard horse collar and emerging technology such as the cotton gin that was ending slavery. The Civil War was about States Rights vs Federal power. You might say that a cold Civil War has begun now with things like sanctuary cities and states rights today.
I’ll let you readers continue the debate, if you wish. Could be interesting, I hope that all viewpoints are discussed. Respectfully, as always, of course.
No, I’m not from the South. Military brat and Army on my own, I’m from all over.
You are correct, Petercat. If the US had adopted the British way of ending slavery (attrition) there would not have been a war.
The cotton gin and steam engine would have ended slavery by economic pressure. But then, as today our elected officials decided that they were the elite and had to tell everyone else what was best for them. This culminated in a POTUS who was obsessed with not being a failure, which he defined as the Union dissolving on his watch. So the Constitution, as originally intended got trashed, millions of people died, and racial hatred became ingrained in the society. And before anyone starts foaming at the mouth and screaming about the South, may I remind you that the strongest remaining KKK presence in this country is in Indiana. And from a purely personal point of view, having traveled and worked in most of this country, the worst racists I’ve met are in northern Michigan.
You are spot on, Danny. The worst racism was always north of the Mason-Dixon Line. Bad as things were in the postbellum South, it was the North which created ghettos. Yes, in the postbellum South the streets on the “wrong side of the tracks” were often not paved and there was all the obvious whites-only/coloreds-only facilities etc. but it took the North to create ghettos.
hehe , personal experience.. kkk father, in the midwest (Neb) ,, then in the mid 90s , in a interracial marriage . moved into a kkk controlled town (denver) ,, but did not know till later.. (was wondering why the house market was so bad for us..)
Damn, Rob!
Do you always run head first into the worst s**tstorm you can find?
apparently ,, i’ve been shot, i’ve been shot with an arrow, burnt alive, stabbed, bout a third scar tissue , and been clinically dead,..
have 7 firearm related incidents, in 4 states (all self defense.) one fatal, ‘not allowed to return to that state.’
tstorm,, actually a tornado – f5 in 75 watched it rip thru main street , from my roof, 5 blocks away…
Rob, no offense intended, but Lord, you seem to be a trouble magnet!
Gary just bought the restaurant a month ago, or is this another one? A lot has happened in a month. I don’t know enough to comment on slavery except it is still alive and well all over the world. I believe it was getting to the obsolete stage in the south due to new inventions etc. as was stated earlier. I suppose slavery made economic sense (in a way) in Eygpt, Rome etc. you had captives for doing heavy work while leaving your own populace to support themselves and the country.
This is the same restaurant, right before The Fall.
It’s kind of like Angel’s back story.
Okay thanks. Good work on the comic by the way.
This story happening before The Fall explains why she was able to find refueling stations, less so why she was taking dirt track more-trail-than-roads, but that may have been to keep a low profile.
I thought giving your kid a sapient pet/companion/friend/step-sibling you would harvest for the kid if medically necessary was bad. Doing it for self-decoration … maybe resurfacing Lamia with asteroids isn’t such a bad idea.
And this would be even harder to undo than a tattoo. On the other hand, it would make your granddaughter harder to kidnap, with stronger and faster limbs, so I can see SOME self-excusing motivation.
The dirt track was where she crossed the Canadian/US border.
Sentence the planet to mandatory terraforming? Seems a bit extreme to me…
I’m sure it won’t come to that — and Sgt Baker and his squad are evidence it shouldn’t, as were the two Bookist cops a while back, and lots of the humans on Catia. I’m just disgusted with the reminder of how low human depravity can go — like the cultists in the mountains with the kids in the cave out back.