by Will Stanton » Fri Aug 20, 2021 8:42 pm
"No more beep-boop for you, then," Will laughed. "Welcome to the world of the free-thinkers."
"And this is the sort of expertise you asked me for," he added, after a moment. "Think about it. You wanted to know how my world became more trusting and caring? It's because the mutants where I'm from stood on their own two feet, and could rise themselves into places of significance; not just punching against the MRAs and bigots of the world. Turn Mutant Town from a place you go because you get cheap rent and, hell, who else would want to rent to a mutie anyway to the Hanging Gardens of Lambeth; a place run by and for mutants? Let them thrive in their own world, where they don't have to thrive under the pressure of the world around them? That's how this starts. That's how a movement becomes a subculture; how a subculture becomes part of the culture at large. By letting them grow and thrive on their own merits, rather than having that imposed from above."
A pause. "That includes us, for what it's worth. We go in there and say that this is the way things will be because the University says so, and we're just providing a different flavor of the same old story. Buy-in is key."