Are You for Unification or Independence if You Lived in the FireFly 'Verse?
POSTED BY: RiveR6213
UPDATED: Tuesday, January 3, 2006 05:00
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I'd probably be a lot like Simon/River/Inara. I'd probably grow up in an Alliance-friendly household. I would be taught about the greatness of the Alliance, so it would take a while, but I'd grow to ask why the Alliance did what they did. I would turn to Independance.
~A message from Serenyty~
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I'm going to say something that will SHOCK all of you...just kidding
Long Live the Empi...*cough* *cough* Alliance!
On a hypothetically serious note, I'd support the Unification of Humanity to the extent that the objectives, intent, and modus operandi of the Alliance remained true to their overall goal of ennobling the human creature. I would strive to inspire those serving with me toward a more humane path and reform the seekers of this objective toward a means wholly without the use of drugs, fear, oppression, or capricious, unnecessary, and ruthless force as tools or means of furthering this cause. This would be accomplished through simple adherence to a single clarion ideal: the means you take is part of the end you make. Put more simply those that seek to ennoble mankind must realize that they themselves are not above or below the ideals they espouse. Indeed, they must always strive in all their acts to become the living growing embodiment of the ideals they wish others to follow.
I would take the Alliance and turn it into a quasi-monastic imperial order based on this single central ideal. I would indoctrinate only those who wished to hold power in the training of their wits to discern the difference between Good and Evil, cause and consequence, and in the continual sharpening of their wits, merits, and abilities. Any could join that wished to do so, and any that so wished could retire and surrender that power to others whose merit warranted that grant. The military and every conceivable sub-branch and offshoot would serve both as the fulcrum for this training and as a proving ground to divine, test, and refine the moral character and abilities of those who sought power over their fellow creatures.
All individuals that wished to stay outside this meristocratic order could serve and advance personally or cooperatively in any economic, cultural, and scientific sphere that did not intersect with military or governmental concerns and do so freely with minimal direct interference in the pursuit their craft after serving for four years in the military (to give - at least those able - a taste of the central ideal and to simply improve their abilities) as long as they did not violate the law. Those that opt out could pursue their own interests and advance the cause by scientific, economic, or cultural achievement as free from outright governmental interference as possible save in those cases where those achievements or the means required to achieve them prove deleritous to any individual or collective regardless of their power or class. This framework allows the ordered clarity of purpose of one to work hand and hand with the creative spark and personal initiative of the other while simultaneously balancing out the excesses of each path's forward motion under the guiding hand of the law.
The "glue" holding these disparate halves together would be the primacy of this single overarching ideal and the merits of those who seek to impart it to them in the effort of ennobling mankind.
Long Live the Empire!
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My daddy has always said I'm as independent as a hog on ice. I don't like being told what to do. I especially detest being told what to think. And when it somes to being told what to believe..... Can someone PLEASE tell me how to make paragraphs?!?! {this is all new to me}
And how do I get one of those "emoticons" in my post?
Life is short, brutal, and unpredictable. EAT DESSERT FIRST.
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Wow, you went all realworld on this one. I am shocked! Shocked to find actual political opinion in this thread! Bwah haa ha!
:browncoat:
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I'm almost certain I'd be an Independent. The reasons are surprising.
Registered Republican but more of a Gulianni type Republican. Pro-choice, conservative fiscally, limited government all around, love decisive action by leaders (at least make a gorram decision and live with the consequences instead of sticking a finger in the wind to see which way it's blowing), vote for the person and not for the party (most of the time would like to vote "none of the above")and fiercely protective of my home and country (US Army for 6 years and Army spouse for 13). "Lead, follow or got the 
out of the way!"
I guess all in all I fit the profile of a middle aged female Independent.
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Tough one.
Independent. I vote as an independent. I don't particularly toe any political party line. So yeah, I guess, when it came down to it, it's easy to say I'd be a Browncoat.
But what if, say as in Inara's case, (Why did she leave Sinhon, anyway?) I'd invested years of training for a chosen lifestyle, and would find myself out of the Guild for opposing the Alliance... would I look the other way? Would I save myself, following a political regime I couldn't agree with in order to preserve my lifestyle?
Can't say. Want to say I'd be gutsy, and brave, and have faith that what is right would win in the end. But I honestly don't know if I would.
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Browncoates all the way
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...ALLIANCE!!
... CRUSH THE REBEL SCUM UNDER OUR HEEL! LET NO MAN, NO WOMAN EVEN SPEAK AGAINST US!!!! 
... I'd be a Libertarian. 
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Quote:
Originally posted by ImperialKnight:
Long Live the Empire!
I second that! :)
Alliance, Unification and no anarchy in everything! Sterilisation of everyone, who does not satisfy to criteria of the Better World!
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I can't help thinking about the American Civil War allegory going on in Firefly. I'll first have to figure that out- if it weren't for slavery, there wouldn't have been a war, and if there had been a war without, a massive number of Northerners like me would have protested, or even have supported the Confederacy. But since the cause of the war was rooted in a singular moral problem, I would have to support my home area, the North.
That having been said, the show never gave any major reasoning behind Unification, other than some "Whoo-rah! Let's go and have a good ole' fashioned war! Let's unite humanity," goz-zhe. For that, I'm going to have to say that I would have tried to join up in the Indepedent military, and failed every possible test for enlisting. I probably would have ended up driving a truck, hauling food or ammo while commenting on the obvious historical significance of the war to soldiers who might not have cared less about hearing me talk on and on and on about something they already know to be true.
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