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How so?

• GeoAtreides 2y ago
  The Culture makes really obvious there's no real purpose, no great struggle, no sense to the universe. When everything is provided, when everything is safe, when there is no more effort, then what's the purpose of life? A lot of people when confronted with these revelations/questions have an existentialist crisis. For some, the solution is to deny the Culture. Long story short, the Culture is a true Utopia and some people just can't handle utopias
• worik 2y ago
  It is interesting to read the books in the order they were written. The earlier novels (I am going completely from memory here) "Use of Weapons" and "Consider Phlebis" The humans are pets of the machines. The machines are vicious, and righteous. They use extreme, and creative, violence when they feel it is in their interests. In the later novels I feel Banks lost his way a bit, got too attached to the characters. In the later Culture novels the main characters are invulnerable, he does not let any of them die. Whereas in consider Phlebus (spoiler alert) Horza dies at the end and his whole race is genocided.