I don't know how do to this without being cliche
the that makes you kill people SCP?
tell it from the perspective of the world without war, and have them not talk much about their own reality.
- they live in a much more prosperous world. how do they resolve conflicts? much better than ourselves.
- but they are a little less advanced technologically. not much tho — and nowhere near the blood price.
- "sure you save a thousand lives a day through automation. Your Second World War killed 85 million souls for that automation. is that the blood price we must pay?"
- the pervasiveness of war, and how brutal it is.
- Foundation/English is from an 001 proposal. (or the article isn't English, only is for us)
200+ nation states
world governing body without teeth
one document is a pyschological primer for new employees discussing what the people on the other side are like. still human, and not on the whole much more violent on a personal level — but they are much more used to it.
short-term conflict exists. violence exists. battles exist. but war does not. long-term conflict.
war!Foundation flaunts their advancements and gets shut down. peace!Foundation gets them, just maybe in a little different way. and the blood price isnt worth it
but it's one of those stories that's more … shut up and accept the allegory.
they'd still have technology, telecomms. drop the internet to make us feel the difference and give war!Foundation something to flaunt (but buff up other telecomm systems)
firearms are out entirely. that's exclusively military technology.
so a sword will still be the pinnacle of their arms technology here, then
the SCP is less intended to be as realistic of a take on the concept as possible but more so one that allows for easy exploration of the concept and delivery of the allegory/moral
Cerastes, McB, Magnus, HammerMaiden —> discussing the concept on irc
- Rewrite the interview log to be angrier. more pissed off at this smarmy fuck and his belief that war is necessary.
- new ending idea: a project proposal from the War!Foundation that proposes they take some people from their respective environments and put them into a neutral zone to see if war happens.
- diplomatic visit is how war bleeds and seeps into everything. "Why are their soldiers in your cities during peace time
- response: hahahahahaha. fuck you. we will never participate in war.
reread the latipsoh essay
get some mention of the Nacirema in here
War when divorced from context is an insane death cult.
rereading this, I think I want to rethink some major segments of it (particularly the tabs after the first.) There's a lot of good writing in here that I'm fond of, but it's all rather … unfocused, I suppose. I think one of the strongest ideas is the utter unthinkability of war to somebody who isn't familiar with it: the scope and level of violence just simply cannot be grasped.
but I really like that idea about the "war is the mother of invention" bit being bullshit. I really hate that sentiment.