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Anonymous Dude's avatar

OK, I get it. The old apparatus of meritocracy and democracy in our society still exists, but is being replaced by greater stratification and conformity--therefore the old fantasy of the autodidact fails in this case, which is an 'if this goes on' of our society's current trend toward central control--social media and requiring social justice essays for admission and the like.

Well done either way.

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Bird of the word's avatar

Love the climax to this!

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Clancy Steadwell's avatar

I love the idea of the Nine Dot problems being used to weed out non-conformists. Well done!

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Anonymous Dude's avatar

I knew you had to literally 'think outside the box', but wanted to get on with the story. Wonder if I could have solved it. Oh well...

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The Delinquent Academic's avatar

Thank you! Yeah lol - I tried it myself (before I knew the trick, of course). It's bloody hard.

I guess I'm simply a conformist!

Chur,

The Delinquent Academic.

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