So basically D3 is a weird sort of meritocracy, where you can only get so high because otherwise the Capitol comes swooping in with its giant hammer and smashes everyone back down. How secret is this, because I can see it kind of like the Career districts where it's vaguely hush-hush, people know about it and the Capitol has given support, but at the same time they're not open about how extensive it is -- and maybe even LESS so because intellect is power and the Capitol, as Gandalf says, does not share power.
I like the idea of class mobility being relegated to intellect/academic performance/innovation, which greater increases the kind of class/intellectual divide I mentioned in the other one. You're smarter than the others, you're rewarded for being smart, and they stay in the factories because they're not as smart as you etc. But meanwhile I assume with that kind of upward mobility the pressure to stay at the top and keep innovating would be kind of insane.
I TOTALLY agree that they would want to keep their children out of the Reaping, I mean, come on, what a darned waste, and I think the Capitol would allow that because, yeah, they want people to keep building them new shiny things. There will always be more miners and quarriers and lumberjacks, but not so many genius engineers. HOWEVER like you said, that doesn't mean that D3 has any level of security -- like any district with privilege it's a curse in its own way. At least D11 knows where they stand at all times.
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Re: District Three Headcanon, Part the Second
Date: 2013-08-23 12:26 am (UTC)I like the idea of class mobility being relegated to intellect/academic performance/innovation, which greater increases the kind of class/intellectual divide I mentioned in the other one. You're smarter than the others, you're rewarded for being smart, and they stay in the factories because they're not as smart as you etc. But meanwhile I assume with that kind of upward mobility the pressure to stay at the top and keep innovating would be kind of insane.
I TOTALLY agree that they would want to keep their children out of the Reaping, I mean, come on, what a darned waste, and I think the Capitol would allow that because, yeah, they want people to keep building them new shiny things. There will always be more miners and quarriers and lumberjacks, but not so many genius engineers. HOWEVER like you said, that doesn't mean that D3 has any level of security -- like any district with privilege it's a curse in its own way. At least D11 knows where they stand at all times.