Primitives for proportions?

[Dingocat85]

Originally posted by QuarianRex:
Dingo,

Why do you think that primitives would have cultural unity. Usually, the less advanced a culture, the more isolated and fragmented it is. I'm not sure why you would think that they would be acting with one mind, one voice.

As far as never surrendering, primitives may be a little technologicaly backward but they are not stupid. Courage and bravery mean nothing when your foe opens up the heavens and liquifies a small continent with a hail of APB XII's (or even just the threat of such). As for why you would bother keeping them around, that all depends on how you are simulating the primitives.

At least the way it looks (on earth) to me, the more primitive people are, the more zealous they *tend* to be. Off the top of my head, some examples are the Aztecs, The Crusades, and Emperor-worship in both Rome and Egypt.

However, as society has progressed, it has become less and less dangerous to speak out against your government. From teachers on strike to the French Revolution, people rally together in Groups, demanding that they get their 'fair share'. Sure, living conditions are a lot better than they were back then...but people now have the chance to voice their disapproval, and anti-government feelings are not suppressed by survival instincts.

I'm no historical expert, I could be entirely wrong. And of course, there are exceptions - WWI/WWII Germany, Communism, Dictatorship - there are plenty of oppressive governments in this day and age. Not to mention the fact that this isn't a game of competing humans, it's competing alien species...their mindsets could be completely different from ours.

Why not have some races be surrender-prone, and others be stalwart never-surrender zealots?

[ May 03, 2003, 21:18: Message edited by: Dingocat85 ]