2/ Banks also makes it clear that members of the Culture use drugs. A LOT of drugs. ...because what else is there to do in a society that pointless? https://twitter.com/Crashing00/status/1224447702735319041 …
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3/ Agreed. I criticize the socialism of the Culture books, but Banks was a great author, and they're great books.https://twitter.com/JohnTaloni/status/1224452068124966912 …
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Yeah, The Culture reads like the Communist wet dreams of how computers were going to be so powerful they could do all the central planning and capitalism would be rendered moot.
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Some people still believe this bullshit.
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Kind of explains the theocratic attraction to it tbh
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Related, the Culture didn't even eliminate hierarchy—it just shifted it all into an extremely regimented military ruling class
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I knew Culture probably wasn't for me when the protagonist of Phlebas was forced to ingest fecal material not once but twice within the first third of the book.
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