After a very long-lasting war, human society has evolved into different castes, each with evolved instincts to help them do their jobs well, living inside giant ships. Kamikaze fighter pilots feel ecstatic when plunging their ship into the enemy, scholars are tasked with preserving knowledge, but have lost understanding of what real free inquiry is, etc.
I read it in the 90s and it felt like a 70s/80s story. It could have been a novelette or a full novel.
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