Hmmmmm...
Consider the relationship between handwavium and Gervasio Faustino de Leon:
Assumption: On the Venn diagram of people in Gernsback-2, "people with the personality types that react best with 'wavium" and "people who've moved to Fenspace" have a large overlap - not total, but large. Conclusion from that assumption: the 'Danelaw doesn't make much use of Handwavium because they can't.
Alternate assumption: On the Venn diagram of people in Gernsback-2, "people with the personality types that react best with 'wavium" and "people who work for a government" have a small overlap - not nonexistent, but small. Conclusion from that assumption: the 'Danelaw doesn't make much use of Handwavium because bureaucracies don't understand it at all, and enact laws and policies in their ignorance that make using handwavium difficult.
Select either, both, or neither...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Consider the relationship between handwavium and Gervasio Faustino de Leon:
Quote:His personal "creativity" doesn't mesh well with 'wavium. In fact, "raw" Handwavium is actively repulsed by him.This shows that 'wavium reacts differently to different personalities.
Assumption: On the Venn diagram of people in Gernsback-2, "people with the personality types that react best with 'wavium" and "people who've moved to Fenspace" have a large overlap - not total, but large. Conclusion from that assumption: the 'Danelaw doesn't make much use of Handwavium because they can't.
Alternate assumption: On the Venn diagram of people in Gernsback-2, "people with the personality types that react best with 'wavium" and "people who work for a government" have a small overlap - not nonexistent, but small. Conclusion from that assumption: the 'Danelaw doesn't make much use of Handwavium because bureaucracies don't understand it at all, and enact laws and policies in their ignorance that make using handwavium difficult.
Select either, both, or neither...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012