• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    You, a primitive: “This is very clearly a critique of the even-in-the-1970s antiquated reliance on fossil fuels and the social ramifications of consolidating so much socio-economic capital within a tiny underdeveloped country. Duncan Idaho has a whole speech about the inherent trade-offs of spice production and global ecological development. It’s right there in the text! You don’t even need to do that much thinking.”

    Me, an intellectual: “Haha. Worm go roar!”

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    The story is an important allegory about the real world. It reminds us how I’m the culmination of human evolution and have magical powers

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    It’s like how we think humans are the “main” species on Earth, but ants or bees or some sort of marine life probably have a better claim to that

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      Like the “Great Filter” anything that survives us get to claim the title of “Main Species”.