Book 22. (7 results) Dancer of Gor (Context Quote)
Chapter #
Sentence #
Quote
11
709
It is apparently one of the socially stabilizing forces on Gor.
11
710
It tends to reduce the dislocations, disappointments and tragedies inherent in more mobile structures, in which men are taught that they are failures if they do not manage to make large amounts of money or excel in one of a small number of prestigious professions.
11
711
The system also helps to keep men of energy and high intelligence in a wide variety of occupations, this preventing the drain of such men into a small number of often artificially desiderated occupations, this tending then to leave lesser men, or frustrated men, to practice other hundreds of arts the survival and maintenance of which are important to a superior civilization.
11
712
Provisions for changing caste exist on Gor, but they are seldom utilized.
11
713
Most Goreans are proud of their castes and the skills appropriate to them.
11
714
Such skills, too, tend to be appreciated by other Goreans, and are not looked down on.
11
715
My virginity had been checked at various times.
It is apparently one of the socially stabilizing forces on Gor.
It tends to reduce the dislocations, disappointments and tragedies inherent in more mobile structures, in which men are taught that they are failures if they do not manage to make large amounts of money or excel in one of a small number of prestigious professions.
The system also helps to keep men of energy and high intelligence in a wide variety of occupations, this preventing the drain of such men into a small number of often artificially desiderated occupations, this tending then to leave lesser men, or frustrated men, to practice other hundreds of arts the survival and maintenance of which are important to a superior civilization.
Provisions for changing caste exist on Gor, but they are seldom utilized.
Most Goreans are proud of their castes and the skills appropriate to them.
Such skills, too, tend to be appreciated by other Goreans, and are not looked down on.
My virginity had been checked at various times.
- (Dancer of Gor, Chapter )