The Wodehouse Experiment, update 1

[devi]

I've got a batch of 20 letters (recipients chosen at random) stamped, addressed and ready to go. If only it would stop bloody raining.

I'll probably only be able to do two or three a day, because if I drop too many in a certain area people will start to wonder what's going on, but I'll post them up as they go so you'll know to expect them. Tomorrow is a Tube Walk, so I should be able to deposit some between All Saints and Devons Road, or wherever it is.

Mad scientists usually specialise in areas like chemistry and physics, but can I be a Mad Sociologist? (Igor! Bring me stamps!)

Comments

[modalverben.livejournal.com]

I don't care what you call it but I call it littering and I'll not have it on a Tube Walk!

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Are you afraid I'll bring the noble institution of Tubewalking into disrepute?

[modalverben.livejournal.com]

Not really, I'm actually pro-littering, I just fear sociological experimentation.

[anam-uk.livejournal.com]

There are sane sociologists ?

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

It's a fair cop, guv.

[inskauldrak.livejournal.com]

A Mad Sociologist... sounds like the basis for a book! Frankenstein's Monster for the new millenium?

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Great idea - it wouldn't just be about creating an artificial man, I could create a whole artificial society!

I'd breed lots of tiny little people in jars, put them into a miniature city... and then I could set the society running under Functionalist principles, and see if that worked. Then I'd zap their memories and start up a Marxist society, and see if that worked. And so on... I would be God! And I would cackle a lot!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, you've just invented The Sims :)

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I wonder could you play The Sims according to different sociological theories? Is it that flexible? Could you, for example, have communist Sims?

I have absolutely no idea

[venta.livejournal.com]

Sshh... don't tell anyone, because my social standing (already perilous) will end in tatters, but...

I don't play computer games at all. I don't like 'em. I've never so much as clicked a mouse at a Sim-person.

Re: I have absolutely no idea

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

This is my guilty secret as well. Well, it's not particularly a secret as anyone who knows me will have noticed I don't know one console button from another. The only game I've really enjoyed lately is Pikmin (because it's a bit like Lemmings which I loved as a child).

I don't like games with lots of fighting in them. I'm such a girl.

But from what little I know about The Sims, it seems to have social rules programmed in from the start. Am I right, computer gamers?

[dakeyras.livejournal.com]

That game has a lot to answer for - all these people taking my / our name in vain...