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“You don’t explore… Why would you? You have everything you want here. You’ve barely progressed technologically from what I gave you in the books. Yet others, who were nearly destroyed…”

Yes, it’s this idea that people need to suffer in order for there to be progress that I disagree with so much. And I disagree even with it even more based on events that happened on the first book.

“Already I fear that I have made things too easy for men. This city, the perfect climate, the ground that renews… You were to have had the radio a century ago, but you didn’t need it, so you didn’t strive for it”.

I can’t put my finger on why I disagree with this idea so much.

“The are jealous of one another, all those people. It maybe be a union in name, but they fight each other tooth and nail. The lowly squabble over trifles. The great wage secret wars for power and wealth, and they call it government. Wars if words, and tricks, and guile, but no less bloody for that. The casualties are many”.