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 Title: Hrunkner Unnerby and the Shallowness of Progress
-Date: 2023-11-22
+Date: 2023-12-15 09:25
 Category: commentary
 Tags: literary critcism, deniably allegorical
-Status: draft
-
-(**SPOILERS** for _A Deepness in the Sky_ by Vernor Vinge)
 
 Apropos of absolutely nothing—and would I lie to you about that?—ever since early 2020, I keep finding myself thinking about Hrunkner Unnerby, one of the characters in the ["B"](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TwoLinesNoWaiting) [story](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlotThreads) of Vernor Vinge's _A Deepness in the Sky_.
 
@@ -26,4 +23,4 @@ Smith and Unnerby eventually meet again as the sun is growing cold. Unnerby feel
 
 I appreciate the relative even-handedness with which Vinge presents this fictional world. A lot of authors in the current year would be determined to present the "progressive" position as self-evidently correct and its enemies as malevolent fools (even in an alien Society which has no [Watsonian](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WatsonianVersusDoylist) reason to map cleanly onto our own), but I find it easy to empathize with both Smith and Unnerby.
 
-And apropos of absolutely nothing, I empathize with Unnberby's efforts to reconcile his duties as a friend with his understanding of what is right. The people he loves having been taken possesion by an idea, he knows to separate the idea from the people. The sergeant is ever-ready to serve, even as he chokes on the message that has no hope of getting through past an ideologue's exuberance: every improvement is necessarily a change, but _not every change is an improvement_.
+And apropos of absolutely nothing, I empathize with Unnberby's efforts to reconcile his duties as a friend with his understanding of what is right. The people he loves having been taken possesion of by an idea, he knows to separate the idea from the people. The sergeant is ever-ready to serve, even as he chokes on the message that has no hope of getting through past an ideologue's exuberance: every improvement is necessarily a change, but _not every change is an improvement_.