Sunday, January 20, 2008

Alpha III M2 profile

Warning: This is a note on "Clans of the Alphane Moon" by Philip K. Dick. It will contain some spoilers so do not read this post if you are planning to read this book.

Alpha III M2
People :
The Pares:

Paraniac schizophrenics. The paranoids. They are the statesman class on this moon. They think about defense and strategies systematicly and rationally all the time.
Residence: Adolfville.
Adolf Hitler was a paranoid.
The Manses
Manic-depressives. The manias. The highly creative and aggressive clan who develop spectacular and highly distructive weapons. They are the warrior class on the moon.
Residence: Da Vinci Heights
Da Vinci was a mania.
The Polies
The polymorphic schizophrenia simplex. Unpredictable and never grow up, they are the creative members of the society, producing the new ideas.
Residence: Hamlet Hamlet
The Heebs
The hebephrenics. They are inclined to ascetic saints or the labour class.
Residence: Gandhitown
Gandhi?
The Skitz
The simple schizophrenia. With their severe hallucination, The are the poet class, some become saints.
Residence:
The Ob-Coms
Obsessive-compulsive neurosis. Their ritualistic functionaries with no orignial ideas. Their conservatism will balance the radical quality of the Polymorphic schizophrenics and give the society stability.
Residence:
The Deps
The Depressive.
Residence: Cotten Mather Estates
The Norms
The normal, with no mental disease at all. New class on the moon consist of only 1 person.
Residence: Jeffersonburg
Jefferson was a normal person.

The Alphane clans are all mentally ill, however the society has all the elements so it works. It could be interesting to make a video game out of it. There are so many characteristic characters here.
It makes me think eigenvectors that compose a space. There are always more then one selection of eigenvectors.
Isn't it just a linear transform of everyone on Terran?
It appears everything wrong to the Terran people, but all together, this moon, with all kinds of mentally ill people, works well.

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