Your claiming that everything Except a nation's internal conflict is boring, that's Disingenuous because it ignores things like Context of the war, what we do with the science and its ramifications on society or how Aliens view said tech, in favor of internal conflict that are not really different from an external war in most cases except they use to be part of our nation.
Except that they used to be part of our nation and thus will be easier to portray with sympathy and are likely to have a strong impact on our citizens and thus our nation. Aliens are easier to label as alien, and thus not something worth caring about. Look at how quickly demonization occurs in PoC and how boring the arguments are in comparison to ones about (as an example) what the best choice for the temple would be.
Sure, maybe we'll befriend an alien (or an AI race that we created) and be super attached to their culture and then, for some random reason, decide we want to go to war with them. In that case we might be as impacted as we would if a civil war began.
Sure, maybe we'll do some science thing, like invent the AI and be given a chance to link all of our brains into a hivemind. Something on that level would be relatively impactful to the degree that it overturns previous portrayals of our civ and results in, ideally, a new narrative style. But science like "improve guns," "improve generators," "jump farther warp drive mark 2" is boring.
Aliens caring about our tech is only interesting if we're invested in the aliens' opinion of our tech, which occurs out of fear that they'll attack us or interest in developing them as friends. If they're going to go to war with us, see my opinion on external war. If they want to trade with us, cool. Maybe if we get backstory on why they hate the tech (e.g. that one Angel fic on SB's description of the AI who was told to make its people happy so it did that until it ended up drugging them and birthing them in vats only to raise them as drugged insensates) that would be cool. But otherwise? More boring than civil war and internal politics.
In essence, the paragon choice basically cuts off an entire source narrative developments (internal culture) so that we can focus on the outside which we care about less.Its ultimate goal is a decreased necessity for us to care about our internal culture. Its narrative is boring, compared to Creator, and doesn't allow us to experiment with achieving the same result through our own actions - i.e. it skips all of the strife.
disingenuous = not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does.
I was completely sincere in my disregard for the narrative potential of external wars and science, at least relative to civil wars.
Labeling what I'm saying disingenuous, rather than strictly bringing up relevant points that convey a similar message, is offensive and, imo, intended to be offensive rather than prompt a change in behavior. Calling what you said disingenuous was a) a flawed use of the word b) to convey an understanding of why its usage is offensive. I would be much obliged if you do not repeat such usage in the future; I won't.
