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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7908589" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>Well... sort of. </p><p></p><p>I mean, if you have several hundred worlds in your empire, for several centuries, you can't really help but accumulate massive amounts of capital. Yet, the humans, in a tiny fraction of the time, have gone from being bound on one planet to running an interstellar federation that is the largest, most powerful political body in the quadrant. </p><p></p><p>It's not really all that plausible. It works because we tend to ignore it. And, well, it fits nicely within colonialist attitudes. Anybody that's not us is just a bunch of barbarians and ignorant savages incapable of doing things right. Vulcans are far more advanced, totally based on logic yet, every seven years their males fight each other to the death in order to procreate. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/erm.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":erm:" title="Erm :erm:" data-shortname=":erm:" /> You'd think a technologically superior race based on logic might, oh, I dunno, figure out some sort of medication for this? </p><p></p><p>Klingons are so busy being drunk barbarians that they never actually get around to developing anything? Really? Centuries old empire of hundreds of worlds, and their technological development is so stunted that we catch up in a generation? </p><p></p><p>So on and so forth. Humans rule because, well, we're humans watching the show and if it was even remotely realistic (humans being relagated to third world status, totally dependent on the hand outs from more technologically developed races), the show would be too depressing to watch.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 7908589, member: 22779"] Well... sort of. I mean, if you have several hundred worlds in your empire, for several centuries, you can't really help but accumulate massive amounts of capital. Yet, the humans, in a tiny fraction of the time, have gone from being bound on one planet to running an interstellar federation that is the largest, most powerful political body in the quadrant. It's not really all that plausible. It works because we tend to ignore it. And, well, it fits nicely within colonialist attitudes. Anybody that's not us is just a bunch of barbarians and ignorant savages incapable of doing things right. Vulcans are far more advanced, totally based on logic yet, every seven years their males fight each other to the death in order to procreate. :erm: You'd think a technologically superior race based on logic might, oh, I dunno, figure out some sort of medication for this? Klingons are so busy being drunk barbarians that they never actually get around to developing anything? Really? Centuries old empire of hundreds of worlds, and their technological development is so stunted that we catch up in a generation? So on and so forth. Humans rule because, well, we're humans watching the show and if it was even remotely realistic (humans being relagated to third world status, totally dependent on the hand outs from more technologically developed races), the show would be too depressing to watch. [/QUOTE]
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