Key Questions to Explore:
- How does the community’s “submit and serve” philosophy undermine the regime’s logic?
- Every faction sees itself as the good guy, and has rational elements and redeemable qualities. No faction should be repulsive. The members of a faction see each other’s individuality and internal division, but see other factions as faceless “other”. Since the community spans factions it needs to see faces.
- How do the “nation” POVs foreshadow the rebels’ futures?
- people can use tech to help people, or use tech to hurt people, or be used by tech and made less than people
- Changing the world is not your job, not a healthy / wise goal
- what lasts after death? Must have a spiritual realm or fall into nihilism
- What rationally frees from fear, provides hope, frees from slavery to consumption