Microsociety Blog

Our teacher read us some more of the story of Notenuf. There had been a family that had lots of seeds. They had spent the first few years eating liver tart but now they had a mighty crop of delicious food. The problem was , they now had too many seeds and they didn't know what to do with them. The mother called for a family meeting. They were to discuss what to do with the extra seeds. The grandpa said he wanted to buy some servant because he was too old and weak to work any more. The mother said she wanted to buy some more land as there was barely any space to plant new crops. The son said he wanted to give some to their neighbours who weren't doing as well. Each family member had a different idea for what to do with the money. Some people wanted to just keep the money and some people wanted to spend it. They began to argue. The arguement lasted all through the night and into the next day.

We did some trading after that . It was a disaster. Some people decided to petition against the officials to get a new one. They must have been really desperate to get a new one because if you didn't sign, they would keep asking you to sign and make bad points about the person they were petitioning against. Eventually, the person who were petitioned against found out and they got really upset. After the session ended, our teacher talked to us about actually telling the person what the person was doing wrong before we could start petitioning. The teacher also mentioned that there are some things that a person can't do according to their ability. Some people left the class feeling upset about what happened. Other than that, microsociety went well.