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Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor (Individual Quote)

Accordingly they would have brought with them certain native customs and cultures. - (Prize of Gor, Chapter 4, Sentence #342)
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4 342 Accordingly they would have brought with them certain native customs and cultures.

Book 27. (7 results) Prize of Gor (Context Quote)

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4 339 And it is on such women, of course, considerably younger women, that it is most often used.
4 340 "With respect to understanding the cultures of such a world," he said, "it is helpful to keep various considerations in mind.
4 341 First, human beings were apparently brought to such a world from many different areas and over a period of many hundreds, indeed, presumably even thousands, of years.
4 342 Accordingly they would have brought with them certain native customs and cultures.
4 343 Thus it is natural to suppose that on such a world many cultures would bear obvious signs of their origins.
4 344 The languages of this world, too, would be expected to exhibit similar traces of their antecedents.
4 345 Secondly, it is useful to keep in mind that the cultures of this supposed world have not been affected by the development of certain vast, far-reaching, centralizing, reductive, dehumanizing, mechanistic technologies; they have not been affected by, for example, global industrialization, socially engineered mass conditioning programs, and gigantic nation states, removing freedoms and powers, one by one, bit by bit, from their victims, hastening to disarm their populaces lest they resist, retaining for themselves alone the means, and tools, of coercion and violence, reducing their supposed citizenries to implicit serfdom.
And it is on such women, of course, considerably younger women, that it is most often used. "With respect to understanding the cultures of such a world," he said, "it is helpful to keep various considerations in mind. First, human beings were apparently brought to such a world from many different areas and over a period of many hundreds, indeed, presumably even thousands, of years. Accordingly they would have brought with them certain native customs and cultures. Thus it is natural to suppose that on such a world many cultures would bear obvious signs of their origins. The languages of this world, too, would be expected to exhibit similar traces of their antecedents. Secondly, it is useful to keep in mind that the cultures of this supposed world have not been affected by the development of certain vast, far-reaching, centralizing, reductive, dehumanizing, mechanistic technologies; they have not been affected by, for example, global industrialization, socially engineered mass conditioning programs, and gigantic nation states, removing freedoms and powers, one by one, bit by bit, from their victims, hastening to disarm their populaces lest they resist, retaining for themselves alone the means, and tools, of coercion and violence, reducing their supposed citizenries to implicit serfdom. - (Prize of Gor, Chapter 4)