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<blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 2074532" data-attributes="member: 5100">Right.&nbsp; The tie to science is that many &quot;modern&quot; things foster this dehumanization -- automated factories, astronomy/biology that makes earth/humans less and less unique, technologic advances (eg. genetics) that allow us to &quot;fix&quot; a variety of &quot;problems&quot; that may define us, etc.&nbsp; The Traditions were representative of the ways real people, in the real world, confront and deal with some of these issues -- Hermetics = searching for anti-tech or magic, Verbena and Dreamspeakers = a renewed reverence and repect for nature, the Chorus = solice in God (Christian or otherwise), CoX = hedonism or tantric medititation, Akashics = various Oriental philosophies and more controlled meditations, SoE and Adepts = a zeal for the potential of science rather than submitting to its inevitability, etc.&nbsp;The setting info for Mage always had bits that referred back to pre-modern times and portrayed the hubris and wrongness of the dominance of the Traditions.&nbsp; It was flat-out stated that Medieval Europe was no better than today, just different.&nbsp; The real advancement was that the Traditions, to an extent, learned from their fall and were now more a force of balance and moderation.&nbsp; They still had their hard-line adherents, but the promise of the Traditions lay in those who were willing to grow.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercule, post: 2074532, member: 5100"] Right. The tie to science is that many "modern" things foster this dehumanization -- automated factories, astronomy/biology that makes earth/humans less and less unique, technologic advances (eg. genetics) that allow us to "fix" a variety of "problems" that may define us, etc. The Traditions were representative of the ways real people, in the real world, confront and deal with some of these issues -- Hermetics = searching for anti-tech or magic, Verbena and Dreamspeakers = a renewed reverence and repect for nature, the Chorus = solice in God (Christian or otherwise), CoX = hedonism or tantric medititation, Akashics = various Oriental philosophies and more controlled meditations, SoE and Adepts = a zeal for the potential of science rather than submitting to its inevitability, etc. The setting info for Mage always had bits that referred back to pre-modern times and portrayed the hubris and wrongness of the dominance of the Traditions. It was flat-out stated that Medieval Europe was no better than today, just different. The real advancement was that the Traditions, to an extent, learned from their fall and were now more a force of balance and moderation. They still had their hard-line adherents, but the promise of the Traditions lay in those who were willing to grow. [/QUOTE]

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