I am a big commander in some streampunk dystopian future.\u00a0I’m being driven in a limo to talk with someone about something important.<\/p>\n
The scene cuts to an intellectual: he’s smart and ambitious — one of those slender\u00a0Scandinavian\u00a0academics — thin and vital, at home with intellectual work. He works in his office or study; he talks to himself about some things. He gets up and begins a mathematical equation.<\/p>\n
I walk in, almost imperially. I talk to him as he finishes his equation; it looks like a physics equation. Part of me wonders, though, how he knows physics; he’s so learned but does he have such scope to be proficient in all areas? I thought he was more a professor of humanities?<\/p>\n
In fact, as he is writing the last part of the short equation (there are chalkboards full of equations), he mutters with vehemence about people not understanding his time — by “his time”, he is referring to the 60s!? — but I thought the 60s was all warm and fuzzy.<\/p>\n
With his assertion lingering in the air, a miner walks in. This vital, amber-brown-bearded man lifts off his brass steampunk glasses and the fact that he’s covered in soot is now unmistakable, his coal grey face revealing striking eyes and healthy, white-pink circles of skin where the goggles had been.<\/p>\n
He’s in his young thirties and layers of experience constitutes his sturdy body. He can’t say anything, though… it’s not his place due the class struggle and the reality of the mines. I can see in his quick, wise, intelligent face that he’s been responsible with and a leader of these efforts; his face shows there is much to be learned from him, despite the passion and ambition of our privileged intellectual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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