I feel a bit sorry for Slytherin. They've caught the worst of the cumulative impact of the whole Seclusion era.
I've come around to the view that the "wizarding world" apple had a worm in it from the beginning. And after three centuries of philosophical drift we are seeing some truly appalling social pathologies which have developed (or intensified) largely in response to the self-isolation. The whole thing is fragmenting beyond belief and becoming totally dysfunctional. It didn't happen overnight, either. It took the whole of that 300 years.
They can't rejoin general *human* society. It wouldn't serve any beneficial purpose to resume the cycles of assimilation and persecution. But they need to renegotiate and rebuld the basic tenants that their own society is founded on.
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Date: 2005-05-30 12:21 pm (UTC)I've come around to the view that the "wizarding world" apple had a worm in it from the beginning. And after three centuries of philosophical drift we are seeing some truly appalling social pathologies which have developed (or intensified) largely in response to the self-isolation. The whole thing is fragmenting beyond belief and becoming totally dysfunctional. It didn't happen overnight, either. It took the whole of that 300 years.
They can't rejoin general *human* society. It wouldn't serve any beneficial purpose to resume the cycles of assimilation and persecution. But they need to renegotiate and rebuld the basic tenants that their own society is founded on.