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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9608840">But the point I was responding to was about people living in cities. Not people living in loin clothes on the edge of actual civilization. Conan is a story from printed magazines. He is a feature of modern civilized living. Most of the people who read him and loved him over the years as a character, were living in places that had running water, professional police and electricity. This part of the argument, just doesn't make a lot of sense to me. History can still have appeal to people. But there are still things that resonate enough that people like seeing Ancient Rome in movies and it has an influence on things like gaming. People have a longing for the past, and they have a longing for characters who embody something simple and romantic about earlier times, before things got so interconnected (I would argue if anything, something like the internet and the constant interconnection of things, makes these kinds of fantasies more powerful, not less). You only have to look at the volume of people on say youtube, who are re-enacting what it was like to make bread in Colonial New England, or all the channels where people intentionally get away from civilization in the wilderness, to see its appeal. Yes we have running water, yet people will forgo running water deliberately to go camping and get away from the conveniences and rush of civilization. And Conan I think is about someone who is able to live outside the constraints of modern society, which is going to be appealing to people living in modern societies. Conan doesn't have to put up with traffic tickets. And even when he does, he can cleave his way out of the problem. The other issue here is no real valid reason is being given for why this idea that we have grown too civilized for Conan to remain relevant needs to be true. Someone just kind of suggested it, and now it has weight, despite not really being given any genuine evidence.</blockquote>

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