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 **Corollary to the above:** The greater the technological and social advantage of the changed societies in question, the greater the wank. **Corollary to the above:** The greater the technological and social advantage of the changed societies in question, the greater the wank.
  
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 ==== Comments from the creator ==== ==== Comments from the creator ====
  
-Originally used in a joking context by [[offtopic:blue_max|Blue Max]] at the link posted above, Max's First Law is, while perhaps not an absolute truth, at least a prima facie guideline that's true in most cases.  The factors behind the wank would be:+Originally used in a joking context by [[offtopic:blue_max|Blue Max]] at the link posted above, Max's First Law is, while perhaps not an absolute truth, at least a //prima facie// guideline that's true in most cases.  The factors behind the wank would be:
  
 **1.) Technological Advantage**.  A society or group from the future knows how to do more things more efficiently than people in the past do.  Even an advantage of the last 20 years would be a very serious affair.  Generally, a technological edge holds unless the ISOT is between a nation pre and post collapse. **1.) Technological Advantage**.  A society or group from the future knows how to do more things more efficiently than people in the past do.  Even an advantage of the last 20 years would be a very serious affair.  Generally, a technological edge holds unless the ISOT is between a nation pre and post collapse.
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 These three factors tend to make most ISOTs wanks; and in general, the further in the past the ISOT, the greater the wank.  This premise is perhaps simple common sense, but despite this observation, ISOTs remain common ASB threads. These three factors tend to make most ISOTs wanks; and in general, the further in the past the ISOT, the greater the wank.  This premise is perhaps simple common sense, but despite this observation, ISOTs remain common ASB threads.
  
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 ==== Criticism ==== ==== Criticism ====
  
-This approach is not upheld by [[Harry Turtledove]] (in, e.g., //The Guns of the South//) and is also strongly objected to by [[offtopic:Thande]] as anachronic prejudice (or "time-ism" as the writers of //1632// call it). His work **//[[offtopic:Complete Works of Thande#There'll Always Be An England]]//** originated as an attempt to show how ridiculous this idea is by having the past defeat the present.+This approach is not upheld by [[Harry Turtledove]] (in, e.g., //[[guns of the south|The Guns of the South]]//) and is also strongly objected to by [[offtopic:Thande]] as anachronic prejudice (or "time-ism" as the writers of //[[163x|1632]]// call it). [[offtopic:Thande]]'s own story series **//[[offtopic:Complete Works of Thande#There'll Always Be An England]]//** originated as an attempt to show how ridiculous this idea is by having the past defeat the present. 
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 ==== See Also ==== ==== See Also ====
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 **[[Wank]]** **[[Wank]]**
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