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Something that never seems to get mentioned during conversations about Adam is that he essentially took a large chunk of Ianto's job. Historian and relic keeper. That smacks of archivist to me. I think he'd probably make it into a much cooler job than Ianto ever did, if we're being honest.
Considering that Adam rewrote Cyberwoman so that it was him who executed Lisa, I wonder if his presence in the archives related to that.
He also left Torchwood One in the same year that Ianto started and was probably also in Information Retrieval, although we now know that Ianto was only in that position for a month. I wonder how that played out.
Obviously none of that actually happened, but if he touched enough memories than it could have been real, for all intents and purposes.
I really think that there's so much potential in an Adam and Ianto Big Finish story.
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Took a shit on capitalism quite literally / Edinburgh, Scotland
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The recent roosts about economics, would it be fair to say that you don’t think particularly highly of Adam Smith?
I think Smith's critique of mercantilism was rather unfair, and I think he was deeply self-contradictory, but I would say that he was among the better classical economists. There is a reason why Marx began with Smith.
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Adam Smith Close, Kirkcaldy
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The conservative cause has been polluted by the ideology of big business, by the global ambitions of the multinational companies, and by the ascendancy of economics in the thinking of modern politicians.
- Sir Roger Scruton, How To Be a Conservative
I’ve always said that the word ‘conservative’ is the most abused word in the political dictionary. For those of us who have a conservative disposition towards arts, culture, and society but don’t automatically align ourselves with the actual political Conservative party, it is a continued cause for grief.
I believe Adam Smith and Edmund Burke - both badly misunderstood and misquoted thinkers - as well as the late Sir Roger Scruton would be turning in their graves at how the poor state of current British conservatism has morphed into some cultish free market libertarian wet dream.
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My new favorite Twitter thread.
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I think that as lefties we shouldn't indiscriminately hate on Adam Smith. While yes, he was an old white dude and he came up with capitalism, he also didn't fully endorse it and even pointed out some clear problems driving from mass production and the division of labor. Like bro really said "This is division of labor, it increases production and it's useful, but it also hurts the individual workers involved" and Capitalists were like "ooh it increases production" and refused to care about anything else he said.
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Ianto and Retcon
Here's something to ponder on.
In Almost Perfect, Ianto is administered what they refer to as "anti-retcon", which makes him recall things he has forgotten.
"It'll take a while to start working. If it works at all. Maybe three days. Sooner if there's a trigger. Plus, there's a tiny danger you might remember Everything."
It's never addressed in text, but would that Everything also include Retconned memories?
Memories like Adam? What if both the man and the memories began creeping back in?
All I'm saying is that it's a great opportunity for a Big Finish story. A nice GDL penned dark!Ianto story that brings back the wonderful Bryan Dick. Maybe even Kai, considering that Rhys had seen Adam and wasn't Retconned as far as we saw.
Obviously there's no way BF would write a story that has required reading of a sixteen year old out of print book, but still. A girl can dream.
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A tender mother, among the inferior ranks of people, is often afraid to send her son to school at a seaport town, lest the sight of the ships and the conversation and adventures of the sailors should entice him to go to sea.
— Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
William Redmore Bigg (British, 1755–1828), The sailor's farewell
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Torchwood 2x05 - Adam
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