> Is it just the meddling, superiority complex, and halting of technological advance? For the most part it wasn't much more deep than that, although one more s

> Is it just the meddling, superiority complex, and halting of technological advance? For the most part it wasn't much more deep than that, although one more subtle point was that there were also a lot of comparisons between the chaotic and unstable climate of Trisolaris due to its multiple suns and the perceived political / cultural disorder and division in the US, in contrast to the stable climate of Earth.