LAST EDITED ON Jul-06-14 AT 02:32 AM (EDT)
>Hmm. I could work on the long-overdue post-publishing analysis of
>AINA...
>
>... only this looks much more fun! Oh, good, you are doing one. I was beginning to despairwonder.
(Though, in hindsight, I'm now a little worried that you think a teaser for an unfinished project is "much more fun"...)
>I love how Asami brings this up completely out of nowhere almost
>twelve hours later after some truly epic drinking and possibly
>bedroom-related celebrations and Korra picks up the thread with very,
>very little trouble.
I couldn't possibly comment about that middle bit, but the rest of it is in fact exactly what I was going for. :)
>KORRA
>Asami, I hate to tell you this, but Master Sokka, You're Drunk! is...
>not reliable as a matter of historical record.
IHNJ, IJLS.
>Private enterprise has its own very different pathologies and problems
>compared to public ones, so I'm not sure if taking it entirely private
>and just using the governments as a cash source is a step in the right
>direction or not.
Well, keep in mind that Asami's basically giving us the first draft of her thoughts on the project there, and not necessarily how it ultimately played out. At the time, she had in mind the (to her, as a captain of industry) self-evident fact that the governments were only there to buy stuff, not invent it. :)
--G.
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