The Symposium at the End of the Universe
Posted on April 29th, 2005 by Brad Spangler
With apologies to the late Douglas Adams and fans, the title of this post came naturally from the idea it is about.
Role-playing is not just an excuse to get together with your friends and cover a table with dice, miniatures, papers and pizza boxes. It is also a technique for conflict mediation and reaching common ground.
What if one were to convene a sort of discussion group of people role-playing some of the greatest radical minds and leaders of all time, across all eternity? Would new ground be broken? Would the proceedings make for an interesting book?
Some potential panel nominations:
- Murray Rothbard
- Samuel Edward Konkin III
- Benjamin Tucker
- Karl Marx
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Nestor Makhno
- Thomas Paine
- William Wallace
Panel moderator:
or Heinlein ?
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