My opinion on Enders Game yet confusion.
My opinion on Enders Game yet confusion.
I think this book is a great one to read as it got me thinking about many different things regarding life here on Earth and how our lives can relate to the lives in the book in many different ways. However, I was confused about the world of the Buggers and why the fight was going on.
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There are too many "theys" for me to be able to decipher that sentence.I wonder why the hell would they stay, if they obviously knew that they were coming.
"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic."
- Frank Herbert's 'Dune'
- Frank Herbert's 'Dune'
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I forget if it was in Xenocide or CotM, but the hive queen is pretty adimate about not needing to leave Lusitania before the litte doctor arrives because the little queens have already been disppersed.
Likewise, earlier in the series (somewhere) and a couple times through out, it's noted that the hive queen doesn't lie, but can't see the future either. It's often asked, "Why didn't they leave if they knew Ender was coming?" I think I finally get it.
It's not the decision of the species to die w/o a fight, but rather the hive queen doesn't understand abstract thinking. She can't see the fork in the road, as she travels on a one lane highway of thought. Did she promise this or that, can she see the future? No. Whatever train of thought she has she rides it to the end, not remembering she just switched tracks.
She just hurtles toward what in the hive mind is the inevitable.
Likewise, earlier in the series (somewhere) and a couple times through out, it's noted that the hive queen doesn't lie, but can't see the future either. It's often asked, "Why didn't they leave if they knew Ender was coming?" I think I finally get it.
It's not the decision of the species to die w/o a fight, but rather the hive queen doesn't understand abstract thinking. She can't see the fork in the road, as she travels on a one lane highway of thought. Did she promise this or that, can she see the future? No. Whatever train of thought she has she rides it to the end, not remembering she just switched tracks.
She just hurtles toward what in the hive mind is the inevitable.
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