Redjay12 OP t1_j29msmz wrote on December 30, 2022 at 5:26 PM

Reply to comment by sfenders in Is Canticle For Lebowitz supposed to be funny? by Redjay12

I may not agree with the idea that they held humanity back but in the second part of the book that is a central conflict. A world leader and a religious leader have a little argument about it and the religious leader insists that people lost their lives to maintain these records and they couldn’t be used until now. The military leader disagrees and blames them for the state of the world

sfenders t1_j29tdzj wrote on December 30, 2022 at 6:07 PM

Yeah, I had only a vague memory of how that disagreement went. I suppose I must've been left with the impression that when you take the long view of history, the military dude was largely (or at least partly) in the wrong there.