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Mezentine

So can you be sure that no Mind ever experiences even a brief moment where it might do something wrong?

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Mezentine

Okay we finally get the backstory on what The Culture actually did and it looks like they were the ones putting political pressure to get the reformist Presidents into office and, to hear the Loyalist faction describe it, accidentally got a guy bent on violent revenge into office.

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"They're making D&D an MMO" is old enough to run for congress

This is where I thought the book was written much later, because it really feels like a meditation on GWOT-style meddling & the costs to everyone who was made to do the actual fighting. A planetary-scale fuckup.

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#1 Shoup Fan

Banks throws out in his interviews his worries about interventions in Yugoslavia and Rwanda, so I think it’s just a long running preoccupation for him

Mezentine

Although, reading this through a second time, another possible explanation occurs to me, which is that the Culture didn’t do anything to start the war at all and they’re just lying about it to give both sides an excuse for peace before total civilizational implosion.

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Mezentine

After the war, Quilian spends some time in a momentary where he thinks a lot about death.