[The shades briefly angle towards Jake. Then they angle back towards Hinata.]
'Antediluvian,' in this context, means before the flood that cinched the deal of me and Rox being the last humans alive on Earth. I use the term to denote cultural constructions that don't necessarily have to be carried through now that we have the freedom to determine our own sense of what being human means. [Can monotone be pointed? Maybe. It's pointed at Jake.] Basically, it's shit like gender or class that shouldn't have any control over us now that everyone is dead.
Hope's Peak, as an institution, would be one of those antediluvian systems. It functions by first defining its elite by the parameters you described and then dividing them both conceptually and structurally from those who don't fit into those parameters by setting them into a special course.
[Jake was right. Don't get him started. He can go off on a philosophical rant about it so easily.]
From a postapocalyptic position, being the best at something doesn't matter when you're selecting out of two. One of us being better than the other in some category would immediately qualify us for Hope's Peak by its own parameters, even if we weren't really any good at whatever it was. And that's ignoring the fact that Hope's Peak wouldn't even exist from out perspective even if it once did. From my position, the only thing that matters or gives hope is survive and knowing you aren't alone.
[He drinks more of his coffee. This really is nice.]
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'Antediluvian,' in this context, means before the flood that cinched the deal of me and Rox being the last humans alive on Earth. I use the term to denote cultural constructions that don't necessarily have to be carried through now that we have the freedom to determine our own sense of what being human means. [Can monotone be pointed? Maybe. It's pointed at Jake.] Basically, it's shit like gender or class that shouldn't have any control over us now that everyone is dead.
Hope's Peak, as an institution, would be one of those antediluvian systems. It functions by first defining its elite by the parameters you described and then dividing them both conceptually and structurally from those who don't fit into those parameters by setting them into a special course.
[Jake was right. Don't get him started. He can go off on a philosophical rant about it so easily.]
From a postapocalyptic position, being the best at something doesn't matter when you're selecting out of two. One of us being better than the other in some category would immediately qualify us for Hope's Peak by its own parameters, even if we weren't really any good at whatever it was. And that's ignoring the fact that Hope's Peak wouldn't even exist from out perspective even if it once did. From my position, the only thing that matters or gives hope is survive and knowing you aren't alone.
[He drinks more of his coffee. This really is nice.]