Okay, that makes sense. I'd still argue though that drugging people to the gills to keep them docile and, more importanty, fat won't get them high quality food. They'll probably run into the same problems as their human counterparts who employ industrial livestock farming, namely the production of cheap meat that is low in quality and taste, or worse, pathogenic. But maybe I am just overthinking things.
No, I think that's a valid point - but I think that's exactly the sort of mistake that the leviathans would make, both because they've skipped to the end and just adopted corporate culture as the first step up from running as pack animals, and because when they try to act like humans they get it wrong.
Dick Roman seems like exactly the sort of person who'd regard a world that was wall-to-wall McDonald's restaurants as a sort of paradise - instant food, instant income, instant power. The leviathans have never done this before, so they're just copying us. It looks like we eat well, so they want what we've got - but with humans instead of cattle. If they got hold of a really first-class chef - someone of Charlie's calibre, but with food - he could tell them that this isn't the way, that they'll be disappointed with the results, and so on. But leviathans don't think like that. They think this is the best way to get a constant supply of high-quality food.
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Date: 2012-05-03 06:52 pm (UTC)No, I think that's a valid point - but I think that's exactly the sort of mistake that the leviathans would make, both because they've skipped to the end and just adopted corporate culture as the first step up from running as pack animals, and because when they try to act like humans they get it wrong.
Dick Roman seems like exactly the sort of person who'd regard a world that was wall-to-wall McDonald's restaurants as a sort of paradise - instant food, instant income, instant power. The leviathans have never done this before, so they're just copying us. It looks like we eat well, so they want what we've got - but with humans instead of cattle. If they got hold of a really first-class chef - someone of Charlie's calibre, but with food - he could tell them that this isn't the way, that they'll be disappointed with the results, and so on. But leviathans don't think like that. They think this is the best way to get a constant supply of high-quality food.