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@enriquericos You might be right, I have not watched the show, and am only assuming it is in the same spirit as the book. Perhaps they pulled a Starship Troopers on it!

@enriquericos The author is a fascist, and his story is a justification for fascism, and any analysis or judgement of the work ought to bear that in mind.

The sadly common, unqualified observation "I love this book/series", is an indication of how low we have sunk in our ability to understand what we are watching or reading.

@enriquericos Given the author's real-world high profile comments in defense of the Chinese government's "re-education" (e.g. sterilization) camps for ethnic minorities, ("Would you rather they were in the subway, committing crimes?" he said) this stance does not sit comfortably with me.

@enriquericos In this way, the book continually justifies why a government needs absolute power over everything citizens do, so that it can save us from ourselves, even in extreme situations where the government is forced to use violence against its own citizens, for the greater good. It is an unapologetic defense of authoritarianism.

@enriquericos The thing to bear in mind about The Three Body Problem is that, like any work of commercial art in China, the author was very mindful of what the government would allow to be sold. Hence, in it, *all* characters act out of selfish, evil or insane motivations (e.g. selling out the human race to hostile invading aliens because they would prefer humanity be extinguished to protect the environment.), and the only force for good, preventing chaos, is the government

@glyph 100% same. Buying a 2nd Minecraft account for my kiddo, I - a veteran software professional - ended up accidentally creating an entirely unwanted 3rd Microsoft account, to which the license is irrevocably attached.

@ROllerozxa The ownership handover has been extremely suspicious, unannounced, and totally uncommunicative. This is an app to which users trust all their most intimate files, precisely because they don't want to hand them over to corporate servers. If I were trying to make the handover look like a bad actor had bribed or blackmailed the original developer into handing over the keys, I couldn't have done a better job than this dude.

@Gina @JessTheUnstill If it isn't run by the actual Mob, then it is run by a new Mob. It is simply a barbarous, Kafkaesque shakedown.