Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "The INSANE History of Netflix's "3 Body Problem"" video.

  1. Since you ask, I read the first two books of the Three Body Problem trilogy. I didn’t bother with the third one as I didn’t accept the, “Dark Forest,” thesis and saw it as a type of Chinese Communist Propaganda. It’s a massive justification for paranoia and hostility toward all cultures outside of your own. It’s sounds clever when you first read it (and it was entertaining) but the more you think about it, the more egregiously illogical and xenophobic you realise it is.
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  2.  @aaronknautz7364  : Other humans are all we can speak about. We have a sample of 1 to draw on for all our best informed guesses. Animals don’t count, as they have all evolved from one gene pool in which they must eat each other (or be eaten) to survive. But also, because animals are not sentient. Look around you and it’s clear that even on our harsh planet we got past the desire to wipe out all other races, learning to live with them, side by side. And it was abundance of resources that lead to that, as much as anything else. I would suggest a whole entire species that has developed technologies so far advanced beyond anything we can comprehend, let alone build, is not going to be dumb enough to wipe out other sentient life forms just because they look different. Consider carefully the author’s thesis and you’ll see that only a Chinese Communist upbringing could lead to the conception of such depths of paranoia. But it’s worth considering how contrived the circumstances of the novel had to be in order that he could create a fictional species of sentient life that would even have a motive to travel all this way just for conquest. The type of creatures that can survive a tri-solar system is far fetched enough, don’t you think? Yet, what are the odds that such a rare and billions to one species would see the environment on our stable planet and say, “That’s just like home.” The most plausible part of the whole story is that some nihilist may well betray humanity after being embittered sufficiently. Stephen Hawking was a better physicist than he was an anthropologist or historian.
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  3.  @aaronknautz7364  : It’s also worth noting that many groups have met for the first time and gotten along just fine, but that those make for less interesting stories and are less repeated in stories.
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