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Younger people tend to take a darker view of him, even in Gori. Last summer vandals painted the statue’s base with the phrases “Get off your pedestal!” and “Your place is in the museum!”
D Pope wrote:Younger people tend to take a darker view of him, even in Gori. Last summer vandals painted the statue’s base with the phrases “Get off your pedestal!” and “Your place is in the museum!”
Kensai wrote:Well Stalin did kill almost as many Jews as Hitler
Freakzilla wrote:Bureaucracy -- You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/world ... orgia.html
Representative Democracy -- You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.
SandChigger wrote:After The Scattering THE ENTIRE SPECIES CANNOT BE THREATENED, only local pockets of people(s). But as Leto says when referring to the scale of prescience, the size of "local" can be ming-boggling.
So NO, nothing can threaten the entire species. Leto did not see all threats because he did not look for them. And NO, the events in the latter books do not indicate a threat to ALL humanity.
Flair1239 wrote:SandChigger wrote:After The Scattering THE ENTIRE SPECIES CANNOT BE THREATENED, only local pockets of people(s). But as Leto says when referring to the scale of prescience, the size of "local" can be ming-boggling.
So NO, nothing can threaten the entire species. Leto did not see all threats because he did not look for them. And NO, the events in the latter books do not indicate a threat to ALL humanity.
I agree with this in principal. However it begs the question... what was being set up for the 7th book. Although I found Chapterhouse interesting... I have to admit I was having a tough time really caring about many of the characters.
By that I mean after God Emperor, I really did not feel an emotional attachment with any of the characters. At the same time I enjoyed the flow of the last two books.
For what would have been the concluding novel though... what would have caused the tension. At that point what sort of threat could have caused a reader the type of anxiety that allows them to become emotionally vested.
To tell you the gods honest truth I was fine and found resolution with the end of Chapterhouse. I thought it was fine that they left in the No ship presumably to start a new society... that seemed to work with the whole concept of the scattering.
I guess to summarise before I begin rambling. I felt the Scattering solved the problem of survival of the species. I thought the end of Capterhouse resolved the issue of the "Old Empire" reintegrating "The Lost ones". The Question in my mind is... really where could book 7 have gone?
A Thing of Eternity wrote:Also, after the Siona gene was spread throughout humanity, prescience was effectively useless.
A Thing of Eternity wrote:Also, after the Siona gene was spread throughout humanity, prescience was effectively useless.
MrFlibble wrote:A Thing of Eternity wrote:Also, after the Siona gene was spread throughout humanity, prescience was effectively useless.
Hm, since we're talking about this, I wonder if prescience invisibility wasn't potentially dangerous for prescience-guided space travel? What if a sufficient number of prescience-shielded people would "cloak" a large object a ship could run into? And speaking of that, if prescients were invisible to each other, couldn't it be that Guild Steersmen could make the Heighliners they were piloting invisible to other Steersmen?
A Thing of Eternity wrote:Plus they'd have to know where the ship was going to "land" - space is HUGE.
dune stroller wrote:A Thing of Eternity wrote:Plus they'd have to know where the ship was going to "land" - space is HUGE.
Wasn't it Dan Quayle who said "Space - there's a lot of it out there!"?