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• Tape-teaching/Creativity/The characters of Azi

>From: Lesley Grant <lgrant>
>Subject: cherryhlist
>Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 9:32:22 GMT

> >From: Jo Jaquinta <jaymin>
> >Subject: CherryhList: Clones in space
> > >From: Lesley Grant <lgrant>
> > 	However, it did seem to be morally objectionable for Reseune to do
> > things like designing job-satisfaction into azi, precisely becuause it would
> > do things like limiting creativity...
> 	Is this not just an extension of what we do now? In large companies
> much effort is put into encouraging company philosophy in all things. This
> effective brainwashing produces happy employees of the company who owe all
> they have to the company. Are Cherryh's azi this philosophy taken to its
> logical conclusion?

	It's a bit more than that. Justin Warrick was thinking of designing
azi mind-sets to find satisfaction in the work they did, rather than in the
praise they got from their Supers for doing work.  Yanni Schwartz was of the
opinion that this would eventually make Union work-alholic and not a nice
place to be. This would be because azi eventually became citizens in many cases
and then had or adopted children -- work driven azi would teach those children
to be work driven, and eventually Union society would change to people running
on industrial treadmills. At least, that's what Yanni thought. And given that
Ari 1 had been secretly designing 'teach your children' tape for azi, he could
well have been right...

			Lesley