12-31-2007, 06:31 AM
I'm doing it. I'm invoking Goodwin's Law. OK I guess someone else gets to invoke it after my post. But whatever. :)
The Emperor = Hitler. Sure if you want to be analytical about it Hitler started some public works projects that were great for the country and if the evil rebel alliance hadn't stopped the wonderful axis powers led by Emperor Hitler and Darth Mussolini (or whichever Japanese leader you want to be Vader) his grand vision of a unified Nazi world may have actually gone down in history as a great hero and unifier despite the racial genocide. I'm not going to make all the analogies and comparisons you can find them on the net if you like this is not original thinking by me and I think some of them are pretty obvious.
Most people still think Hitler was evil and many would have thought that even if he had won and if in 2058 (I'm giving it more than 100 years after the war that would have taken a bit longer than it actually did I figure) Earth was ruled by a world government and there was no war it was because Hitler took of the world. I'm not going to bite that the emperor was anything but evil and that his motives were all selfish and evil as well.
But I do agree that history has been too kind to some people in the past as well. Sam Adams by todays standards could easily be painted as bastard of a terrorist if you want to paint that picture. Columbus was pretty much a jerk, the "Christian" missionaries who burned and slaughtered many of the southern american tribes and burned all their history and records weren't what I would call nice people either and I'm not sure the world as a whole is better off for what has come of all that anyway.
The emperor was evil and I don't think anything good really came from him winning anyway and enough people that lived in his universe felt that way and overthrew him because of it and that seemed to make more people happy than sad. That seems to be a pretty good indicator. And yeah I'm not saying that popular belief is always right either but it's a tool that can help, you need other tools to get a better idea but if most of the people living in those conditions really believe something that's usually a pretty good barometer, not always but in general.
The Emperor = Hitler. Sure if you want to be analytical about it Hitler started some public works projects that were great for the country and if the evil rebel alliance hadn't stopped the wonderful axis powers led by Emperor Hitler and Darth Mussolini (or whichever Japanese leader you want to be Vader) his grand vision of a unified Nazi world may have actually gone down in history as a great hero and unifier despite the racial genocide. I'm not going to make all the analogies and comparisons you can find them on the net if you like this is not original thinking by me and I think some of them are pretty obvious.
Most people still think Hitler was evil and many would have thought that even if he had won and if in 2058 (I'm giving it more than 100 years after the war that would have taken a bit longer than it actually did I figure) Earth was ruled by a world government and there was no war it was because Hitler took of the world. I'm not going to bite that the emperor was anything but evil and that his motives were all selfish and evil as well.
But I do agree that history has been too kind to some people in the past as well. Sam Adams by todays standards could easily be painted as bastard of a terrorist if you want to paint that picture. Columbus was pretty much a jerk, the "Christian" missionaries who burned and slaughtered many of the southern american tribes and burned all their history and records weren't what I would call nice people either and I'm not sure the world as a whole is better off for what has come of all that anyway.
The emperor was evil and I don't think anything good really came from him winning anyway and enough people that lived in his universe felt that way and overthrew him because of it and that seemed to make more people happy than sad. That seems to be a pretty good indicator. And yeah I'm not saying that popular belief is always right either but it's a tool that can help, you need other tools to get a better idea but if most of the people living in those conditions really believe something that's usually a pretty good barometer, not always but in general.
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It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.
It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.