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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] I'm still thinking about this. I guess what bothers me is, this notion that by giving up all their advanced technology, they'll have a better life. I don't believe that. Technology is what you make of it, and I believe humanity should do what it can to advance. So, yes, I have a personal objection to all this, it feels to me like back-to-nature tree-hugging hippy crap which is so much in vogue these days. It's totally unrealistic. People who espouse it fondly believe they'll live some kind of pastoral existence untroubled by want or hate or fear. Instead someone gets greedy and it's next stop a feudal society. Obviously my personal view is coloured by the hindsight I as the viewer have over the characters - that I know their decision dooms the human race to more than a thousand centuries of hunter-gathering leading to gradual cultivation before anything resembling a worthwhile civilisation develops - no matter how long the Colonials managed to maintain decent standards of living and education, their way of life soon collapsed into ignorance and superstition. (The Mitochondrial Eve referenced in that NatGeo article, she wasn't more than about thirty when she died, sucks to be Hera I guess. But it's a bit of a harsh destiny to suffer all because Lee bloody Adama decided to think outside the box!) But, more than that, I don't believe it's a realistic decison the characters would make. Sure most of the Colonials would probably prefer a life of simple farming after the stuck-in-tin-cans existence they've had to endure for the past four years. But their leadership, they've seen all too well that the problems they've faced cone from within, technological matters are at best only a catalyst. Consider the Miniseries: right there in his Decomissioning speech, Adama explicitly says that in Colonial society there is a denial going on that the Cylons were created by them and they reflect their own failings. I'm curious to see what my Dad thinks about it. He's seen Daybreak Part 1 and already he's asked me what the point of the flashbacks is, I haven't told him anything as yet. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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