IC - Questions and Answers

[sythyry]

Perhaps I have spent too long on some Herethroy farmers who aren't even traff. So, I shall answer questions to-day. Perhaps I shall answer them wisely and well, perhaps flippantly and falsely, and, if you are very lucky, you or I will be able to tell which I did.

But beware! If you ask me a question, I may ask one back, which you are morally obliged to answer as well as I answered yours, if not better or worse!

Comments

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

How do you like having your own city so far are you glad you did it?

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not my city, but it's our city, which is rather a treat.

Today's opinion -- and I change every third, sixth, and ninth day of the week -- is worrying about the future. Right now people who live here are all immigrants of one degree or another, and all determined to make Kismirth work well. That won't last. In a year, or ten years, or a hundred, everyone will think Kismirth has Always Been This Way and doesn't need any work to keep going right, and will start ... um ... forgetting why we did it this way.

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

So why did you do it that way and not some other way? Are you more worried about people deciding that traff is wrong or that having nonprimes in the city was a mistake or that magically-created cities need more attention than wood-based ones?

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

I'm worried -- I'm certain -- that the current widespread spirit of idealism and devotion to making Kismirth a Good Place To Live, won't last very long. I hope it will last until Kismirth is indeed a Good Place To Live, say.

Magically-created cities are in fact taking more attention than naturally-grown ones.

Ah! Now I may interrogate you viciously! What does "long-term planning" mean to you personally, and do you think it is a good idea ever?

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

Ummmm.

It means being a good friend and relation and generally a good prime, I guess. I mean, that's the part that I try to do. I've heard stuff like 'deciding on a course of action and sticking through with it until the end' or 'buying property and building it up' or 'apprenticing and staying with a trade until you master it and then continuing to work in it until your apprentices and journeymen can support you' but none of those seem very practical. For me. I assume they work for other people!

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

That is remarkably sensible.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear. It was the first one until you suggested the other two.