In my last blog I indicated that I would be back in five weeks following my trip to Canada. Those five weeks turned out to be five seven months as my life has been a busy succession of classes, tests, job searches, interviews, and law school applications. Admittedly, I could have found time to go on in between, but my fear of a negative reaction to my last blog post restrained me from doing so. It was the rediscovery of my old Yahoo! mail account (where the Forums send me all their notifications) that prompted me to finally come back, after seeing that the world still accepts my right to express my opinions no matter how small or unreasoned they may appear to be. And while I did avoid the discussion on Rainbow Rocks here, I'm in time to see the speculation and hype over the new season, which has not eluded me.

Though I tend to avoid spoilers whenever possible, the itch to know can still get to me. And as far as I'm concerned, the season opener looks like it could be an interesting one, filled with the moral philosophy, challenges and questions that attracted me to the show in the first place and the world-building that keeps me coming back.

The commentary on the spoilers on Facebook somewhat disturbs me. More than once people have expressed surprise that the show would explore "communism" in a kid's show. The enforced equality depicted there is not communism, not even in its Marxist-Leninist corruption (even that concept allowed for, and even in theory was based on, the individual development of one's own talents). Rather, it is best described as an extreme manifestation of "Tall Poppy Syndrome" where those that are talented are considered to be too distinguished from others. Further, it is unclear whether the most critical part of any communist regime, the common ownership of the means of production, is actually implemented. All we know is the equality of talents for any particular member of the community, which does not necessarily preclude private ownership.

So anyhow, I'm back, and hope to take part anew in the larger brony community.