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Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop
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    1. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto Jan 22
      Replying to @ColumPaget

      ok look, the ENTIRE point of the series is that they aren't enlightened after all. Zakalwe died (over and over and over again) for our sins.

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    2. ColumPaget‏ @ColumPaget Jan 22
      Replying to @danlistensto

      let's say that this point is correct. Do you trust politicians to take that away from it?

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    3. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto Jan 22
      Replying to @ColumPaget

      I don't trust politicians to tie their shoes without expecting a kick back from Big Shoelaces

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    4. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto Jan 22
      Replying to @danlistensto @ColumPaget

      But lets torture the analogy Geoff might have been trying to make. How do the current American political parties come down on the war in heaven? Is it blue-team is the "no hell realms" faction and red team is "hell has its uses"?

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    5. ColumPaget‏ @ColumPaget Jan 22
      Replying to @danlistensto

      oh, "Late Culture"

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    6. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto Jan 22
      Replying to @ColumPaget

      early culture is Bush doctrine in space right? Except the Idirans were really equiv-tech and not three civilizational eras behind

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    7. ColumPaget‏ @ColumPaget Jan 22
      Replying to @danlistensto

      I was thinking more of foreign policy in the middle east. "These people are desperate for enlightened democracy and we're going to give it to them by meddling in the region like the enlightened Minds we are. Oh, and bombing anyone we don't like."

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    8. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto Jan 22
      Replying to @ColumPaget

      Yes, but that's not exclusive to the Middle East by any means. But again, like, the whole point is that they _aren't_ the good guys. There are no good guys. They just have really nice stuff.

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    9. ColumPaget‏ @ColumPaget Jan 22
      Replying to @danlistensto

      I don't think I've ever met anyone outside of you who took that away from the series. I think it is very dependant on having read the much later works.

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    10. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto Jan 22
      Replying to @ColumPaget

      I know, I'm very heterodox. The series is almost universally held up as the example par excelence of fully automated luxury space communism with enlightened humanist characteristics.

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      Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto Jan 22
      Replying to @danlistensto @ColumPaget

      which suggests to me that the most common underlying meaning a person has in mind when they think "this is good" is "this provides a framework in which I feel ok about using force"

      11:57 AM - 22 Jan 2018
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