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Scooter0Dude t1_jdacehx wrote

Reply to comment by mrnewtons in I picked up Wool, and couldn’t put it down. by fn0000rd

Ok, this reply helped. Haha. The twist was meh for me. You said it. Inwas struggling to verbalize this.

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mrnewtons t1_jdadbw0 wrote

Come to think of it, just to add fuel to the fire, Stargate SG-1's, which released in 1997, entire premise of the show was that the main antagonists (the Goa'uld) had enslaved most of the galaxy by keeping education low and using advanced Tech to make planets think they were literal gods.

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It's... it's just such an old idea that it's kinda like seasoning a chicken with just salt and expecting me to be impressed.

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That's maybe too harsh but you get my point I think.

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Scooter0Dude t1_jdadrq8 wrote

I do and I love the analogy. I get that there is nothing new under the sun and I'm sure Howey was trying to put season that chicken.

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