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The Culture War: Iain M. Banks’s Billionaire Fans
I think if the dictator's brain power is many magnitudes that of a human and playing 10 dimensional chess whilst humans play drafts, it can be a dictatorship without anyone even noticing.
n4r9
on Jan 27, 2021
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Yes, this is the dark edge to the utopia which Banks occasionally alludes to.
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