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Originally Posted by leezer3
Perhaps it's just me, but the way the technological restrictions were setup in Safehold seemed never really to work properly.
Whilst the story itself is well told, IMHO the premise is absolute utter hokum.
We've got a society with a reasonable literacy level, and all the basics in place to produce the more advanced machinery etc. but the religious restrictions stop this dead. Sure, they'd work for a generation or two, but if we look back over our own history, restrictions on knowledge and technological innovation have never worked long-term.
I suppose it'd have probably helped if it didn't start getting rather drawn-out- I do agree with the padding the word-count opinion, as I reckon this could have probably been done (Or at least off the planet and into space-based industry) within three books  |
I thought it was fairly plausable - organized religions have been fairly effective in the past in supressing progress. A regigious monopoly would be even more able to do that where it had an absolute monopoly on education.