Postconferencing

I am sitting around slacking after going through a long full-day conference on the Descendants. The problem of defining a Descendant is knottier than it seems. At first, a genetic definition seems to work, until you realise it has to be a culture-based definition of some sort; the son of an artist isn't always an artist and the son of a radical isn't always one either.

You could try language, except that like any other human group, some are more proficient and some are less proficient at a whole range of languages. You could try wealth, except that this sounds silly. You could try many things, and yet in the end, only the most odd and distasteful seem to make sense.

I am tired. But it was fun. Met JJ's mother there. Ha... she's as nice as ever, and says the darndest things.