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Xenocide by orson scott card
Xenocide by orson scott card










xenocide by orson scott card

Hive Queen: Collectively, they're a collection of dolts.

xenocide by orson scott card

Individually, human beings are all dolts. As they get older they learn a more elevated vocabulary in which to express their mindless pseudo- knowledge and bully other people into accepting their prejudices as if they were truth, but it all amounts to the same thing. From earliest childhood, they delude themselves into thinking they comprehend the world, while all that's really going on is that they've got some primitive assumptions and prejudices. They don't have enough years in their little lives to come to an understanding of anything at all. They have conflicts between mates, not because their communication is inferior to ours, but because they commune with each other at all.”

xenocide by orson scott card

Humans mate with beings who challenge their supremcy. Our mates are always, hopelessly, our intellectual inferiors. Your people and mine, each for their own evolutionary reasons, mate with vastly unequal partners. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong,Īnd some of their strength, I think. Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other.

xenocide by orson scott card

That is the tradegy of language, my friend. Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. We know out lovers with perfect understanding. Your mates are nothing but mindless drones, extensions of yourself, without their own identity. They never seem to grasp the idea that males and females are separate species with completely different needs and desires, forced to come together only to reproduce Constantly at war with each other, never content to leave each other alone. “The strangest thing about humans is the way they pair up, males and females.












Xenocide by orson scott card