I finally finished reading Paul Rosenberg's "The Breaking Dawn". It was not at all what I expected, though in a way it brings closure to the themes of his previous "A Lodging of Wayfaring Men" and "Production vs Plunder" (that I heartily recommend).
The Breaking Dawn starts as a somewhat presentist dystopian novel and ends as... spoilers ahead... post-judeo-Christian transhuman utopia. It takes the story arc of civilization to its end—or rather to two opposite ends. Total control, or ultimate liberation. Make your choice.
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It's not my favorite Paul Rosenberg book, maybe because I can sympathize but not identify with its characters. Bad guys are a bit of caricatures, when good guys are true to life—kind of the opposite of an Ayn Rand novel. If each author wrote what they saw, PR saw good people.
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Usual PR themes: the arc of civilization from origins to teleology, the causal relationships between people's internal religious beliefs and long term social outcomes, the truths and errors of ancient and modern Christianity, the role of technology, dominance vs freedom, etc.
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