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Originally Posted by Tim Bond I saw nothing relating to genius or quality shaping of young minds - allot of it instead was dealing with relatively simple authority and group-pack dynamics and leadership. Monkeys have these issues within their groups - dogs do to - this is nothing. A genius is not threatened by any authority - if they want to disappear - they are gone (dumb can be 'invisible') and if they take action it will be beyond mammal territorial concerns - though, they can induce fear by the ramifications of what they 'could' do and may acknowledge this to themselves. Why would someone who has better concerns grapple with what a mob is doing? |
Tim...you said a lot of interesting things in your analysis of
Ender's Game, but what you said about authority and group dynamics really struck me. I think a key here is that Card belongs to a religion that, for better or worse, is very oriented towards obeying authority and fitting into the group, often at the expense of the development of the individual's uniqueness. It also has often not been very tolerant of the individual who is more intelligent than the norm. So, I think what Card wrote probably reflects what he accepts and what he has problems with within that structure that is very important to his own belief system.
Of course, I could be completely off base in this assessment, but this is how it has seemed to me in multiple readings of
Ender's Game.