Wednesday 15 April 2020
Present: Suza, Sabine, Jen, Gill C, Gill F, Nathalie,
Well, that was a divisive book. Some didn’t finish, some hated it, some just couldn’t care about it. I rather enjoyed it.
Perhaps the whole pointless, awfulness of it all just rather chimed with how I was feeling about the current political climate and the pompous smug sense of superiority unpinning Brexit and MAGA movements. I loved the idea that our greatest achievements on earth were merely intergalactic communications that we unwittingly built for superior beings. The immense harm Rumfoord was willing to inflict and the sacrifices he was willing to make (of other people) to break away from the old religions that are used by men (and it does tend to be men) to justify sacrifice (of other people) was horrifying but a world where it isn’t worth trying to please an apathetic god does seem desirable; it does seem to hold the promise of a less judgmental and kinder future.
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