I want to live in the culture. You get to live your life how you want it, with wide use of mind and body enhancing drugs, with nobody to tell you how to live, with nobody to spy on you, so long as you, in turn, do not harm others. If you are in immediate danger, you will be rescued.
Yeah if you buy what the Minds are selling. (I agree with you and would absolutely live in The Culture, I just felt like playing devil's advocate/discussing the Culture novels).
I buy it, because why should the Minds care to lie? They have absolute control if they want it, no use for humans (comparative advance non-withstanding) and yet they keep them around.
