Juho Pohjalainen's Blog: Pankarp - Posts Tagged "analogies"

I think I finally tackled an analogy I've been working on for a while now.



Picture you had some terrible parents. They're constantly at odds with each other. It's not for certain that you're biologically theirs (though many believe you are), or that they didn't have you by accident.
A lot of people would not even be aware of these parents existing, and go along with their lives as if this was the case.
But others would take sides.
Let's say you went along with your dad. You agreed with him in everything, partly because you believe what he says, and partly because he gives you great rewards and weird powers. It's up to you which one of these is more important. In turn, you shun your mother and oppose her wherever you can.
Then it gets wonky. The thing is, you yourself are made of your two parents, more or less in equal amounts. But the more you go along with your dad, the less like your mother you resemble.
Say you had once her eyes? Well, not anymore. Her very genetic code gets slowly but steadily erased out of you. Eventually there's nothing but your dad in you.

This is what it would be like to follow either the concept of Law or Chaos too far. To think that the world would be better off with full order, or disorder, and forget that it needs both to exist. By mortal reckoning, the champions of either aspect are pretty legitimately insane.



Peal, in this analogy, would be well aware of his parentage, but choose to avoid both sides. Whenever one of the two is getting too powerful, he punches them in the groin. Peal is a problem child.

I don't like morals in my stories. I don't want to tell my readers what to think - rather to make them think, period. Give them the story as is, without pushing any deliberate moralities or allegories or takeaways, let them draw their own conclusions and make up their own minds.

But this year's NaNoWriMo is an exception: there's most assuredly a moral there.



The moral is thus: every inherent human flaw, be it in our biology or psychology or society, can be traced back to the EVIL SERPENT PEOPLE that created us and that still rule us from the shadows!

Tribalism? Inherent dislike of that which comes from outside our small social sphere? It's there to keep us in our own throats rather than going for the true enemy!
Greed, corruption, gluttony? To bribe our greatest onto the side of the serpents, against their own race!
Sexual dimorphism? Think of specialized dog breeds - men made bigger and stronger so that they might lift things and wage wars against the foes of the serpents from beyond the stars, women more soft and curvy so that they'd make for good eating and their skins into nice parchment!
Stress, anxiety, indecision, deep dark fears? So that we might settle for what we have and never strive to learn the higher truths of cosmos, such as what created us and why?
Wisdom teeth, appendix, a spine that barely holds together, painful dangerous childbirth? They just didn't give a fuck!

Forget your petty feuds and insignificant quarrels. Forget your personal woes and temporary issues. We are all human, all with our own troubles and our own hopes and dreams. We are all the same, deep down, just trying to make do. Let's not trip one another.

Let us rise against the serpent people instead. Fight for our freedom at long last!