/lit/ - Literature

>favorite faction
>favorite book aligned with its worldview

>>9824566
>Heaven is not so much an object of hierarchical legitimacy, but rather is sacred as a measurement tool for the cycles of life. However the matter still circles around human finity and death to me.

see pic rel. this is why i find Alpha Centauri so interesting.

question: down the road of thought that you are traveling, isn't the hive in the end the only possible outcome for the government? totalitarian statism makes sense if you follow existentialism far enough. 10b people all doing exactly the same thing and obeying the chairman, whichever he is. because the state alone has the existential crisis, not the individual; and the state encompasses the whole, and everyone within it. that is its justification. it has, and arguably does not even need, further ones. it resolves the questions of human death and finitude by group fiat.

they're not my favorite faction, and not the one i would voluntarily choose, if i had a choice, but it's hard not to see the chairman as a kind of endgame problem for much existentialism.
>and they already made him the XO of the ship after garland

what does xunzi say about this?