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<blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 3603447" data-attributes="member: 4720">Personally, I can't imagine telepathy and human society as we know it co-existing at all.&nbsp; After all, one of the currently ascending theories of language evolution is a game theory exercise in fooling each other.&nbsp; I'm not really a proponent of that one.&nbsp; Why create language merely to lie?&nbsp; But then my philosophical penchant is one of the things that weakens me as a scientist.In any case, operating from the assumption that telepathy came later (so I can wrap my head around it).... you'd probably see some decentralization.&nbsp; The landscape would look more like the US than Europe.&nbsp; Lots of people spread apart on isolated farmsteads and small, small towns rather than centralized.&nbsp; Darkvision would come in handy, since gathering for defense has drawbacks, you at least have fair warning when things get within 60 ft.&nbsp; Those who did manage to live with each other would probably be fairly close knit, or else working their asses off to control their negative reactions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost, post: 3603447, member: 4720"] Personally, I can't imagine telepathy and human society as we know it co-existing at all. After all, one of the currently ascending theories of language evolution is a game theory exercise in fooling each other. I'm not really a proponent of that one. Why create language merely to lie? But then my philosophical penchant is one of the things that weakens me as a scientist. In any case, operating from the assumption that telepathy came later (so I can wrap my head around it).... you'd probably see some decentralization. The landscape would look more like the US than Europe. Lots of people spread apart on isolated farmsteads and small, small towns rather than centralized. Darkvision would come in handy, since gathering for defense has drawbacks, you at least have fair warning when things get within 60 ft. Those who did manage to live with each other would probably be fairly close knit, or else working their asses off to control their negative reactions. [/QUOTE]

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