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AlexanderCA
Jul 21, 2010

by Cyrano4747

mind the walrus posted:

It's this. There's no way mass media gets on-board with the Culture. Even if you found some madhouse visionary and executives willing to commit, everything about it is prohibitively expensive.

Bezos claims to love the books:
https://twitter.com/JeffBezos/status/966312919079112705?s=20
He certainly has the money. Fans politics not matching up with the author is pretty common. I'm also a big culture fan but it didn't turn me into a socialist either. The whole omniscient AI thing running the show also serves to distance it from modern economics. Would have a hard time imagining social conservatives being fans though.

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