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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.