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I had what I thought was a great idea for a post, but it was getting past noon and I had errands to run, so I decided it had to wait. After getting surprisingly lost about 100 feet from where I live<1>, I managed to get home with the assistance of my cell phone GPS. After spending a bunch of money on this thing, which I didn't really want to buy but you can't not vacuum, it comes out of the box in pieces like I'm supposed to assemble it.
The last thing I really want to do after buying this shit is pull out a small, opaque back that rattle like screws. What the fuck? I'm buying a Hoover, not a goddamn build-it-yourself kit. I didn't spend eighty bucks on fucking Tinkertoys but here I am, trying to insert tab A into slot motherfucking B.<2> So now, I've got a dirty floor, a bunch of styrofoam, and about five seperate pieces of vacuum. I don't remember the totality of what I was originally going to post anymore. Instead, I am mad at the manufacturing world. I don't care how great they are, I don't want additional tubes or hoses, I am not interested in anything that revolves, spins, induces nuclear fusion, reactors, dusters, magnates, lasers, or anything that extends anywhere.<3> These things are fine on their own, I'm sure, but I just don't give a shit. Why do I have a feather duster? I don't want it. It comes with an instruction manual that says 'Use a Phillips Screwdriver'. I'm just like, 'Fuck, I don't have any screwdrivers at all. What the hell?' Anyway, Solars.
I was thinking about Solars while doing my shaving and basically came to the conclusion that they're bound to fail. Not really because of the Deathlords, or the Yozi<4>, or the Bronze faction or whatever, but because they're not made to rule Creation. They're just weaponized mortals. This is no surprise; mortals were just prayer-generating machines for the Yozi after they built Creation. So, maybe they're amazingly powerful weapons, astounding weapons, versitile weapons, but that's it. It's why Solars were number one after the Incarna kicked off to play the Games of Divinity after they knocked off the Yozi - because they're the most powerful. Arguably, they're not even really the best at running things of the Exalts, but they can kick the most ass, so there it is.
Cosmologically, it's why all the Solars basically try to solve their problems by murdering things until they go away. That's basically what they do. When they use social charms, they're forcing people by dint of what is effectively mind control, which is just social coercion instead of physical. When Exalts are in charge, what they're doing is fighting social situations instead of governing in any real sense, which is why the 1st Age crumbled.
In order to be successful on the second go round, the Solars have to come to terms with their modifications but they can't effectively rule. They don't make good rulers, just powerful ones.
Now, functionally, that's not going to happen and that's also not because of outside influences so much. It's because they're not The Solars, they're a bunch of Solars that each have seperate goals that are not the same. They'll just end up fighting the shit out of each other, in a more high-powered version of the Shogunate.
<1> Fuck you, Bellevue.
<2> Yes, ok, 'that's what she said'. If I go to IKEA, I promise not to make that joke again.
<3> See <2> above.
<4> One Solar, two Solars. One Yozi, two Yozi, all the Yozi, that Yozi over there, you get the idea.
The last thing I really want to do after buying this shit is pull out a small, opaque back that rattle like screws. What the fuck? I'm buying a Hoover, not a goddamn build-it-yourself kit. I didn't spend eighty bucks on fucking Tinkertoys but here I am, trying to insert tab A into slot motherfucking B.<2> So now, I've got a dirty floor, a bunch of styrofoam, and about five seperate pieces of vacuum. I don't remember the totality of what I was originally going to post anymore. Instead, I am mad at the manufacturing world. I don't care how great they are, I don't want additional tubes or hoses, I am not interested in anything that revolves, spins, induces nuclear fusion, reactors, dusters, magnates, lasers, or anything that extends anywhere.<3> These things are fine on their own, I'm sure, but I just don't give a shit. Why do I have a feather duster? I don't want it. It comes with an instruction manual that says 'Use a Phillips Screwdriver'. I'm just like, 'Fuck, I don't have any screwdrivers at all. What the hell?' Anyway, Solars.
I was thinking about Solars while doing my shaving and basically came to the conclusion that they're bound to fail. Not really because of the Deathlords, or the Yozi<4>, or the Bronze faction or whatever, but because they're not made to rule Creation. They're just weaponized mortals. This is no surprise; mortals were just prayer-generating machines for the Yozi after they built Creation. So, maybe they're amazingly powerful weapons, astounding weapons, versitile weapons, but that's it. It's why Solars were number one after the Incarna kicked off to play the Games of Divinity after they knocked off the Yozi - because they're the most powerful. Arguably, they're not even really the best at running things of the Exalts, but they can kick the most ass, so there it is.
Cosmologically, it's why all the Solars basically try to solve their problems by murdering things until they go away. That's basically what they do. When they use social charms, they're forcing people by dint of what is effectively mind control, which is just social coercion instead of physical. When Exalts are in charge, what they're doing is fighting social situations instead of governing in any real sense, which is why the 1st Age crumbled.
In order to be successful on the second go round, the Solars have to come to terms with their modifications but they can't effectively rule. They don't make good rulers, just powerful ones.
Now, functionally, that's not going to happen and that's also not because of outside influences so much. It's because they're not The Solars, they're a bunch of Solars that each have seperate goals that are not the same. They'll just end up fighting the shit out of each other, in a more high-powered version of the Shogunate.
<1> Fuck you, Bellevue.
<2> Yes, ok, 'that's what she said'. If I go to IKEA, I promise not to make that joke again.
<3> See <2> above.
<4> One Solar, two Solars. One Yozi, two Yozi, all the Yozi, that Yozi over there, you get the idea.
