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I haven't seen so much effort put into a set in years. This would decent if it wasn't so damn propogandistic. Of course the message is "communism hates science".
From the Netflix science-fiction series Three Body Problem
Still looking for some positive portrayals of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution anywhere, really. It's the great taboo, even for leftists. Anyway, watch Breaking with Old Ideas
Honestly, if I wanted to consume some piece of sci-fi about how we have to "KILL ALL THE XENOS!" but without the overt anti-communism, I'd stick with Warhammer 40K
It does the whole "the universe is a genocidal warzone" theme way better in my opinion, more fun too
What?!
Can you explain how did you come away with such messages from the books? I’m genuinely curious.
The central premise of the series, the "Dark Forest hypothesis" is never actually subverted or resolved, it's just postponed by one technobabble contrivance after another, by the end of the second book it's just taken at face value because the author disparately wanted to make some goofy point about mutually assured destruction
It's no wonder most of the fanbase is more interested in the hypothesis itself than the actual storyline
How did you go from the Dark Forest hypothesis to “we have to KILL ALL THE XENOS!”?
That’s not even what the story is about. If anything, the entire series is more of a critique and reflection of how the Chinese civilization’s oscillating perception of its former and current oppressors, and at nearly every point, Humanity (i.e. China) was steadfast in its compassion.
I’m genuinely curious about which parts of the books make you think otherwise?
If anything, the entire series is more of a critique and reflection of how the Chinese civilization’s oscillating perception of its former and current oppressors, and at nearly every point, Humanity (i.e. China) was steadfast in its compassion.
Yeah I've heard that before, honestly I think the author bit off more than he could chew, he failed to translate his critique by lashing his "reflections" to a goofy theory about universally psychotic space civilizations which just doesn't work as a metaphor for Asian geopolitics let alone "the oscillating perceptions of Chinese civilization", which is probably why he had to settle for just making a mangled point about mutually assured destruction and WMDs (that "bluff" with the nuclear bombs and the "dust clouds" at the end of the second book)
I think the spookiness of the hypothesis carries the work, but not every far
his "reflections" to a goofy theory about universally psychotic space civilizations
The author himself pointed out that the humans in Three Body more closely resemble Native Americans than China in that they were themselves multiple competing peoples facing total genocide. Compared to real life western colonialism the Trisolarians are far less genocidal. People point out that in the books when all of humanity is forced to live in Australia that the resulting population density would be lower than the current population density in the Gaza strip. The Trisolarians at least allowed humanity to continue to exist out of "an appreciation for human culture", a mercy that does not seem to have been extended to most Native American groups.