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Netflix's Three Body Problem is Unwatchable
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Avoiding open confrontation with a technologically superior opponent? (Again, the Three Body Problem was published in 2008. China's military capability has greatly grown since then.) Approach it from the defender's perspective: if there's a genocidal fascist colonist entity, do you risk broadcasting your location/global presence or is it wiser to do everything you can to avoid notice?
Are the books about the consequences of drawing the attention of that entity?
See this is where the metaphor just completely breaks down, how is China gonna avoid "broadcasting its location/global presence" what does that even mean in the context of geopolitics circa 2008?
This is what I mean when I say the premise swamps/overwhelms the subtext, the metaphor is 300 years out of date and historically incoherent
For the subtext of "avoiding open confrontation with a technologically superior opponent" to work, the premise and the books should've begun with a post-alien invasion storyline, something like Yakitori: Soldiers of Misfortune or Gintama, the remote spooky mysteriousness of the Dark Forest Theory acts too much like linear pathing in a video game, if you take the implications of the theory seriously there's only one way for the plot to go and it doesn't gel well with the subtext the author was trying to advance
It means Dengism. To quote Deng Xiaoping on Chinese foreign policy circa the 1980s: “observe calmly, secure our position, cope with affairs calmly, hide our capacities and bide our time, be good at maintaining a low profile, and never claim leadership.”
The metaphor's 40 years out of date, rather than 300.
I mean, in the context of Chinese national defense it means that technological parity is the only means of avoiding disaster, and the books are kinda about the disaster that happens if you attract the notice of a technologically superior opponent without achieving technological parity first
China is based but hiding there power level, duh.
I feel like it's worth mentioning that Obama was a big fan of this book series & I first heard about it on NPR of all places.