Doubt me? Imagine the unspeakable horrors occurring somewhere on earth right this second.
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Right now, there are things that would crack your mind right open to see, drive you shuddering into a fetal position crying.
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Yet, tomorrow you will still be able to go to work, enjoy music, fuck. You exist next door to horrific monsters, already.
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Any scifi universe that can't have a an orgy of nude drug freak anarchists right next door to a genocide, isn't very realistic
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The Culture showed vastly more ugliness than star trek, without a naive attempt to pretend it was a utopia.
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There were pockets of utopia, surrounded by brutal, unspeakable ugliness. And no attempt to deny this.
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The Culture existed, surrounded by things that would drive the federation utterly mad with despair and horror.
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Yet, the Culture didn't entirely turn inwards in denial, and try to hide from it in drugs and sex and fun.
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Nor did the Culture try to wage a war it knew it would lose in a second, against an ugly, horrifically hostile universe.
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The Culture instead sought joy where it could, while trying like hell to at least fuck with the nazis surrounding it on all sides.
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not least by culturing vastly transhuman machine intelligences into incredibly disciplined, prosocial sadistic psychopaths
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