Surely the story would be more believable if the POV character endorsed green rather than blue. As it is, I don’t find them a very sympathetic character, and I can’t imagine a reasonable audience would either.
Nice meta-comment. But it doesn’t really work; green was very well chosen so that any right person with a modicum of brains and heart immediately detects it as both wrong and morally repugnant. To such an extent that I found it broke my suspension of disbelief that half of the future society would believe in green.
Which is a meta comment on present day I think, where the blue red divide is such that one of those sides clearly aligns with facts and physical reality while another side relies on made up stories.
Except of course present day, the reason for one of these sides seems almost to be a self identity thing, where they don’t really believe in their color’s precepts, they just identify with the people in it more so that’s the color they fly.
“The reason for one of these sides seems almost to be a self identity thing, where they don’t really believe in their color’s precepts, they just identify with the people in it”
Based on that, I know exactly the bastards you’re talking about, and I don’t believe anyone would be able to tolerate them as compatriots if they weren’t totally dark triad, at least to some degree. So we’re agreed we need to stand up for what’s right and shut them all down before something serious happens?
Surely the story would be more believable if the POV character endorsed green rather than blue. As it is, I don’t find them a very sympathetic character, and I can’t imagine a reasonable audience would either.
Nice meta-comment. But it doesn’t really work; green was very well chosen so that any right person with a modicum of brains and heart immediately detects it as both wrong and morally repugnant. To such an extent that I found it broke my suspension of disbelief that half of the future society would believe in green.
Which is a meta comment on present day I think, where the blue red divide is such that one of those sides clearly aligns with facts and physical reality while another side relies on made up stories.
Except of course present day, the reason for one of these sides seems almost to be a self identity thing, where they don’t really believe in their color’s precepts, they just identify with the people in it more so that’s the color they fly.
“The reason for one of these sides seems almost to be a self identity thing, where they don’t really believe in their color’s precepts, they just identify with the people in it”
Based on that, I know exactly the bastards you’re talking about, and I don’t believe anyone would be able to tolerate them as compatriots if they weren’t totally dark triad, at least to some degree. So we’re agreed we need to stand up for what’s right and shut them all down before something serious happens?