The book is about the failure of marxist-lenninism in the face of global capital and the inevitable Thucydides trap that China is stuck in as it girds itself to take on global hegemony, written by a man whose childhood was shaped by the cultural revolution, whose adulthood was shaped by the economic boom Dengism bestowed and whose future climate change and a 3rd World War looms over.
unironic based literaturemaxxer :galaxy-brain: moment* holy fucking shit the "dark forest theory" actually makes sense now as something real and not a fascist wet dream, what would be the interpretation of the series' ending based on this geopolitical reading?
*your interpretation is incredibly intelligent and bitingly insightful
what would be the interpretation of the series’ ending based on this geopolitical reading?
You tell me, I haven't had the time to read it. :data-laughing: It's entirely possible this reading is wrong btw, or that it changes with the later books. But it just felt natural to me, given China's history and the way nationalism factors so heavily in the book.
The thing is that the geopolitical reading that you have established really serves to explain the general series of events that take place in the later parts of the series The extent to which is uncanny, even with shit like the brain drain of Chinese intellectuals to the west being relevant lmao it makes everything so clear its amazing
Cixin Liu for me is now officially up there in the sigma literature canon, his later books depicting some fucked up romance between a based failboy academic and his imagination until his imagination becomes real, sounds like utter nonsense but id say its really worth a read
unironic based literaturemaxxer :galaxy-brain: moment* holy fucking shit the "dark forest theory" actually makes sense now as something real and not a fascist wet dream, what would be the interpretation of the series' ending based on this geopolitical reading?
*your interpretation is incredibly intelligent and bitingly insightful
You tell me, I haven't had the time to read it. :data-laughing: It's entirely possible this reading is wrong btw, or that it changes with the later books. But it just felt natural to me, given China's history and the way nationalism factors so heavily in the book.
Thank you, that's very kind of you to say.
The thing is that the geopolitical reading that you have established really serves to explain the general series of events that take place in the later parts of the series The extent to which is uncanny, even with shit like the brain drain of Chinese intellectuals to the west being relevant lmao it makes everything so clear its amazing
Cixin Liu for me is now officially up there in the sigma literature canon, his later books depicting some fucked up romance between a based failboy academic and his imagination until his imagination becomes real, sounds like utter nonsense but id say its really worth a read