Okay, I forgot the statue in Shady Sands/NCR, it has been a while since I played Fallout 2, I don't go through it each month.
Like somebody else said, they can be easily intimidated or manipulated by people with more knowledge.
As an educated person I do not need to tell you how more advanced cultures took use of such situations to use such people for their own purposes.
Now I know that lack of technology does not always mean lack of knowledge, but at the rate knowledge is lost you honestly need to record knowledge in either books or digital records, as stories and songs devolve into myths as they are passed on to new generations.
Where one generation knew what an airplane was, several generations from that talk about some giant bird which could carry people to other lands.
With knowledge also came enlightenment, while some societies already recognized the equality between men and women, its because of our greater understanding that a larger group of us believes that both genders should be treated equal.
Sure, it still requires a lot of work but the basis is there.
Also, the 'divine right of kings' anyone?
Okay, that goes back to 'people with more knowledge' and not so much technology, but still something we got rid off.
And of course slavery, the whole 'self supporting community' goes only so far until some members come up with the idea that it would be nice if someone else did the work and you could take what they produce and use them as you see fit, seeing them as property rather than other human beings.
Even an enlightened low tech society can not escape that sooner or later some of their members start to consider it.
And otherwise there is always an outside force who is already practicing it and perhaps more successful through it.
While industrialization has produced its own 'slavery', its because of greater understanding that we recognize that as a 'bad' or 'wrong' thing, despite that some corporations see it differently.
Most of the people outside the BOS saw them as xenophobic weirdos, remember?
And instead of inviting trust and respect it might also invite the opposite, intimidation and fear.
Who says that the man in the armor that enhances his strength and gives him protection from whatever I can throw at him decide not to get rid of the 'middle man' and help himself to what he wants?
While I could understand that some of the VD's dealings such as eliminating the Khans (for example) would give him a reputation, positive or negative (both probably), that only carries so far.
Giving the VD some bullets or stimpacks is one thing, just handing him a working generator or an auto doc is another.
Like somebody else said, they can be easily intimidated or manipulated by people with more knowledge.
As an educated person I do not need to tell you how more advanced cultures took use of such situations to use such people for their own purposes.
Now I know that lack of technology does not always mean lack of knowledge, but at the rate knowledge is lost you honestly need to record knowledge in either books or digital records, as stories and songs devolve into myths as they are passed on to new generations.
Where one generation knew what an airplane was, several generations from that talk about some giant bird which could carry people to other lands.
With knowledge also came enlightenment, while some societies already recognized the equality between men and women, its because of our greater understanding that a larger group of us believes that both genders should be treated equal.
Sure, it still requires a lot of work but the basis is there.
Also, the 'divine right of kings' anyone?
Okay, that goes back to 'people with more knowledge' and not so much technology, but still something we got rid off.
And of course slavery, the whole 'self supporting community' goes only so far until some members come up with the idea that it would be nice if someone else did the work and you could take what they produce and use them as you see fit, seeing them as property rather than other human beings.
Even an enlightened low tech society can not escape that sooner or later some of their members start to consider it.
And otherwise there is always an outside force who is already practicing it and perhaps more successful through it.
While industrialization has produced its own 'slavery', its because of greater understanding that we recognize that as a 'bad' or 'wrong' thing, despite that some corporations see it differently.
Most of the people outside the BOS saw them as xenophobic weirdos, remember?
And instead of inviting trust and respect it might also invite the opposite, intimidation and fear.
Who says that the man in the armor that enhances his strength and gives him protection from whatever I can throw at him decide not to get rid of the 'middle man' and help himself to what he wants?
While I could understand that some of the VD's dealings such as eliminating the Khans (for example) would give him a reputation, positive or negative (both probably), that only carries so far.
Giving the VD some bullets or stimpacks is one thing, just handing him a working generator or an auto doc is another.
