Well, I've heard that the making of "Dragonriders of Pern" has been stuck in development hell for a while. I can imagine why, even with the gunk about the Green Riders (which makes sense if you put events in the proper context re: the planet's history .. women would have become valuable "commodities" once again after the 6th pass/interlude plague (iirc, that's when the Holds started to be loath to let their girls go to the Weyrs). This would have helped cause a lack of females to satisfy all the Greens, so they were happy to settle for gays instead (as dragons, they probably didn't see much difference, however their perception of human sex, sexuality and orientation worked.) The plague and the subsequent drop in population was probably also why no one wanted to send their girls to the Harpers any more, either (and not many women even want to become Smiths.)

But the thing about the left is, that it doesn't like to think things through in a practical manner, and think that practicality and need should be trumped by ideology ....

That being said, I hate what McCaffrey's son did; from what I've read of his crap, all he did was steal and regurgitate his mom's ideas and graft them onto the "dark" passes, but with more perverted sex just for the sake of writing about pervy sex.

I would say something about how they might not like the basic feudalism, but I think that's what they want to begin with (with Hollywood as their Church - arbiter of cultural attitudes, that is - and their Elon Musk technobusinessman rock stars as the new Nobility), and that it's pretty much Man's natural organizational state to begin with (at least, once he organizes past the family band, anyway.)

Well, I've heard that the making of "Dragonriders of Pern" has been stuck in development hell for a while. I can imagine why, even with the gunk about the Green Riders (which makes sense if you put events in the proper context re: the planet's history .. women would have become valuable "commodities" once again after the 6th pass/interlude plague (iirc, that's when the Holds started to be loath to let their girls go to the Weyrs). This would have helped cause a lack of females to satisfy all the Greens, so they were happy to settle for gays instead (as dragons, they probably didn't see much difference, however their perception of human sex, sexuality and orientation worked.) The plague and the subsequent drop in population was probably also why no one wanted to send their girls to the Harpers any more, either (and not many women even want to become Smiths.)

But the thing about the left is, that it doesn't like to think things through in a practical manner, and think that practicality and need should be trumped by ideology ....

That being said, I hate what her son did; from what I've read of his crap, all he did was steal and regurgitate his mom's ideas and graft them onto the "dark" passes, but with more perverted sex just for the sake of writing about pervy sex.

I would say something about how they might not like the basic feudalism, but I think that's what they want to begin with (with Hollywood as their Church - arbiter of cultural attitudes, that is - and their Elon Musk technobusinessman rock stars as the new Nobility), and that it's pretty much Man's natural organizational state to begin with (at least, once he organizes past the family band, anyway.)

Well, I've heard that the making of "Dragonriders of Pern" has been stuck in development hell for a while. I can imagine why, even with the gunk about the Green Riders (which makes sense if you put events in the proper context re: the planet's history .. women would have become valuable "commodities" once again after the 6th pass/interlude plague (iirc, that's when the Holds started to be loath to let their girls go to the Weyrs). This would have helped cause a lack of females to satisfy all the Greens, so they were happy to settle for gays instead (as dragons, they probably didn't see much difference, however their perception of human sex, sexuality and orientation worked.) The plague and the subsequent drop in population was probably why no one wanted to send their girls to the Harpers any more, either (and not many women even want to become Smiths.)

But the thing about the left is, that it doesn't like to think things through in a practical manner, and think that practicality and need should be trumped by ideology ....

That being said, I hate what her son did; from what I've read of his crap, all he did was steal and regurgitate his mom's ideas and graft them onto the "dark" passes, but with more perverted sex just for the sake of writing about pervy sex.

I would say something about how they might not like the basic feudalism, but I think that's what they want to begin with (with Hollywood as their Church - arbiter of cultural attitudes, that is - and their Elon Musk technobusinessman rock stars as the new Nobility), and that it's pretty much Man's natural organizational state to begin with (at least, once he organizes past the family band, anyway.)

Well, I've heard that the making of "Dragonriders of Pern" has been stuck in development hell for a while. I can imagine why, even with the gunk about the Green Riders (which makes sense if you put events in the proper context re: the planet's history .. women would have become valuable "commodities" once again after the 6th pass/interlude plague (iirc, that's when the Holds started to be loath to let their girls go to the Weyrs). This would have helped cause a lack of females to satisfy all the Greens, so they were happy to settle for gays instead (as dragons, they probably didn't see much difference, however their perception of human sex, sexuality and orientation worked.)

But the thing about the left is, that it doesn't like to think things through in a practical manner, and think that practicality and need should be trumped by ideology ....

That being said, I hate what her son did; from what I've read of his crap, all he did was steal and regurgitate his mom's ideas and graft them onto the "dark" passes, but with more perverted sex just for the sake of writing about pervy sex.

I would say something about how they might not like the basic feudalism, but I think that's what they want to begin with (with Hollywood as their Church - arbiter of cultural attitudes, that is - and their Elon Musk technobusinessman rock stars as the new Nobility), and that it's pretty much Man's natural organizational state to begin with (at least, once he organizes past the family band, anyway.)

Well, I've heard that the making of "Dragonriders of Pern" has been stuck in development hell for a while. I can imagine why, even with the gunk about the Green Riders (which makes sense if you put events in the proper context re: the planet's history .. women would have become valuable "commodities" once again after the 6th pass/interlude plague (iirc, that's when the Holds started to be loath to let their girls go to the Weyrs). This would have helped cause a lack of females to satisfy all the Greens, so they were happy to settle for gays instead (as dragons, they probably didn't see much difference, however their perception of human sex, sexuality and orientation worked.)

But the thing about the left is, that it doesn't like to think things through in a practical manner, and think that practicality and need should be trumped by ideology ...

That being said, I hate what her son did; from what I've read of his crap, all he did was steal and regurgitate his mom's ideas and graft them onto the "dark" passes, but with more perverted sex just for the sake of writing about pervy sex.