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That's interesting to me because the brothers are one of my favorite parts of the show because of the new ideas they bring up in relation to the Empire. It give
by dkonofalski 5y ago
That's interesting to me because the brothers are one of my favorite parts of the show because of the new ideas they bring up in relation to the Empire. It gives the writers some really clever and interesting ways to discuss the problems with a long-standing continuity of ideas while giving those internal inconsistencies human faces to stand-in for something that would be much more nebulous and vague otherwise.
- rsynnott 5y agoI feel like it kind of misses the point, though. Societies like that don't collapse because the leader is immortal, they do so because the _society_ is ossified.
- dkonofalski 5y agoI don't even think that's the point, though. I think it's more of a criticism of strict stubbornness. It's not the fact that he's immortal that's the problem, it's the fact that he/they continue to "lead" in the exact same manner, attempting to ossify a society that, on its insides, is changing. The only thing consistent is change, especially in society. Isn't the point of Foundation that, despite spectacular individuals, societies move on and change?
- phh 5y agoI feel it's the point they are trying to make with the cloned leader (I wouldn't exactly say immortal). They are saying the fall is faster because of an ossified leader, but nonetheless the fall will happen anyway, because it's not just the leader that is ossified, but the whole society.