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My reading of the Culture is that it is at best morally ambiguous. The Culture would extinguish entire civilizations that were no threat to it, simply because i
by jeremyjh 1y ago
My reading of the Culture is that it is at best morally ambiguous. The Culture would extinguish entire civilizations that were no threat to it, simply because it was cheaper to do it before they'd developed further in a direction that could be a threat. If I was supposed to be cheering for the Culture I missed it.
- wat10000 1y agoIs there some other Culture than the one I’m familiar with? The one in Banks’ novels isn’t like that at all.
- jeremyjh 1y agoThey did it in book two, Player of Games. They destroyed the Empire of Azad because they considered it a distant ideological threat.
- wat10000 1y agoI never got the impression they thought Azad could ever be any sort of threat. They destroyed the power structure because it was horrifically abusive.
- jeremyjh 11mo agoYes, biggest minds in the galaxy and their best idea is to run the George Bush playbook. What was the aftermath of destroying the governance of such an advanced civilization? Did millions die in civil wars and famine afterward or did they stick around for decades doing nation building and spreading freedom with autonomous attack drones?