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Date: 2012-10-08 11:46 pm (UTC)That being said, I make no secret of the fact that I'm unimpressed with the results of well-intentioned nation-building at this point in time. Give me healthy self-interest any day.
Just so long as the self interest is frank and explicit - "up-front", as we used to say back in the day. And aren't Asimov's protagonists nothing if not up-front in this series of interlinked stories? Let the audience decide for themselves if this is a good thing, or if whether it's good or bad is even an appropriate discussion point.
[1]This is something I actually have to explicitly say at this late date in the history of intertubes discourse?