on Cardassia and replicators and cosmictuesdays being brilliant
(cosmictuesdays): I find it worth considering how replicators never really took off on Cardassia. They had them, absolutely, but the infrastructure was never capable of supporting them as the major food source.
(cosmictuesdays): The book “The Never-Ending Sacrifice” had someone say you’d never get poor importing food to Cardassia.
peachsynapse: did it!
peachsynapse: mmm, i could see that
(cosmictuesdays): So what makes Cardassian infrastructure such that they never took a widespread use of replicators?
(cosmictuesdays): Was that it remained a capitalistic society?
(cosmictuesdays): Is it Cardassians being more sensitive to food textures and tastes? Their disdain of what would be a trivial thing from the greater galaxy that they didn’t make themselves and is only so good as a trifle for hot chocolate?
(cosmictuesdays): Is it just something for the poorest of the poor on government assistance?
(cosmictuesdays): I was thinking about the few circumstances in which Federation citizens would have to - gasp! - TAKE THEIR FOOD WITH THEM.
peachsynapse: i wonder if there are elements of all of these things?
peachsynapse: ‘it doesn’t taste right’ would mean more to a society which associates proper taste with honesty, purity, truth
peachsynapse: (which is how i come at it anwyay)
(cosmictuesdays): That makes a lot of sense.
(cosmictuesdays): Replicators taste the same every time.
(cosmictuesdays): And…well. Never tell the same lie twice.
(cosmictuesdays): So sure, give it to the poorest of the poor who can’t afford to care they’re being lied to.
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