Marvelous! This makes more sense of the culture than the books do.
I haven’t done much oppositional reading, but I enjoy oppositional watching. Movies need a lot more help than most books toward making sense. I’d tell you my theory of Sith ideology, but it’s embarrassing to even have theories about a series made mostly for kids.
I was going to comment on the apparant deathism of the culture, which has always bothered me. Their cautious low level of interventions is a bit easier to explain, but the books don’t bother to do it.
How about this: Their nonintervention is some remnant of an alignment that didn’t allow them to intervene directly to influence humans, as a safety measure? And so special circumstance is only little efforts that are pursued by the very few Culture humans who care, aided by the few Minds that humor them.
Marvelous! This makes more sense of the culture than the books do.
I haven’t done much oppositional reading, but I enjoy oppositional watching. Movies need a lot more help than most books toward making sense. I’d tell you my theory of Sith ideology, but it’s embarrassing to even have theories about a series made mostly for kids.
I was going to comment on the apparant deathism of the culture, which has always bothered me. Their cautious low level of interventions is a bit easier to explain, but the books don’t bother to do it.
How about this: Their nonintervention is some remnant of an alignment that didn’t allow them to intervene directly to influence humans, as a safety measure? And so special circumstance is only little efforts that are pursued by the very few Culture humans who care, aided by the few Minds that humor them.