- [<] Status Log - created:: 2021-04-07 - [S] Marketing - purpose:: turn this into an section of [[Recurring Motifs in Modesitt's Works]] It’s also a good thing for illuminating ethics via fantasy fiction. Secondarily really focus on chorus and how it's not evil to conquer in that philosophy, and not all of the things that the bad guys did were evil for example the importance of infrastructure and the importance of ecological controls are things that modestly clearly values, but the thing that makes them evil is very definitely using the life force of the lesser in order to preserve, all unmoving, great works of art as though that is the only thing that matters, more than living, more than living their lives. One of the things that makes that book so great is that the protagonist is a farmer who just wants to go back to his farm.. and actually does go back to his farm instead of becoming some lost prince who becomes the king. The moral that farmers are important and their way of life is valuable actually gets worn out, instead of so many fantasy novels where farming is the source of greatness, but it's left behind, see also the Codex alera. And was fascinates me about this is that Madison is otherwise quite enamored of the arts, the spell song cycle spends a lot of time in the beginning and throughout with the protagonist music on how underfunded arts programs are, and in a way isn't a government funding of an arts program nothing more than taking money, our tax dollars, that could be used for food and children, and essentially represents life force in a way, certainly both represent value in the broadest sense, and taking it from regular people and putting it toward preservation of the arts? Perhaps that's the real distinction between our world and the world of chorus, life force is ultimately a finite resource, and the way that they suck life out of the world makes its lifespan less, not because there is some limits to how much life force and art and eternity the world can sustain but because the amount they are taking is too much and drains the world before it's time. That analogy is significantly more similar to the way that some companies will ransac