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"Wool" as an extended metaphor for religion
Patti
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Wool OmnibusHugh Howey
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This comment concerns the entire Omnibus collection...Silo, Shift and Dust.
I'm about a quarter way into Dust and it has suddenly dawned on me that the story of the Silos can be equated to the story of religion. You have the "gods" (politicians, esp. Thurston), who put the people into the silos, you have IT, which could be equated to the Church...holding all the knowledge and power. You have the ignorant masses, going about their daily lives as prescribed by their betters, kept ignorant of the truth of their origins/reason for being there, and especially denying the truth of the outside that Juliette brings them in the form of personal experience and the Legacy books.
I like to think of it like this:
Thurman = God
Heads of IT = Popes
Doubters/questioners (Holston & wife, Jahns, Juliette) = Skeptics such as Gallileo, Kepler, Sagan, Dawkins, Hitchens etc.
What do you think? Am I way off base?
***POSSIBLE SPOILERS***
This comment concerns the entire Omnibus collection...Silo, Shift and Dust.
I'm about a quarter way into Dust and it has suddenly dawned on me that the story of the Silos can be equated to the story of religion. You have the "gods" (politicians, esp. Thurston), who put the people into the silos, you have IT, which could be equated to the Church...holding all the knowledge and power. You have the ignorant masses, going about their daily lives as prescribed by their betters, kept ignorant of the truth of their origins/reason for being there, and especially denying the truth of the outside that Juliette brings them in the form of personal experience and the Legacy books.
I like to think of it like this:
Thurman = God
Heads of IT = Popes
Doubters/questioners (Holston & wife, Jahns, Juliette) = Skeptics such as Gallileo, Kepler, Sagan, Dawkins, Hitchens etc.
What do you think? Am I way off base?
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It probably could be generalized to any -ism, that is, any system of thought which can be used to reduce freedom of thought and therefore of action.
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Hmmmm. Very interesting way to look at the story. Hughey may not have meant it that way, but it certainly fits. The "ignorant masss" - so appropo. Using this metaphor - perhaps Juliette is a prophet?
Herrholz Paul
I finished Wool recently. I was impressed with it. For me it was about control of society for its own benefit. Things are fine until you start to rock
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Can it be applied to religion? Sure, but I think it speaks more of the human nature of greed. There will always be the few that horde whatever is scarce and lord that power over people. I also think that your premise would be strengthened with the mention of a specific religion. Catholicism at one point withheld knowledge for power, scientology with holds its true teachings. Current Christian religions are based on the Bible and knowledge of that book are encouraged. I believe the same is true for Islam. So your metaphor wouldn't work unless the IT published a book that had all the information about what was going on, but no one bothered to read it.
I don't think the book is that clever. Any deeper meaning is probably coincidental
An extended metaphor for religion?, Wool??, Jesus! Have we read the same book?
I do not see the religion concept, but it does not mean it is not there. I do see it as an analogy of society in general with its different levels and the fact it is a silo, which has its own connotations of keeping to ones own sphere. I also noticed that the top changes, but it stays the same too.
Yes. It was the conversation with Thurman at gun point where he asks him "Why all the suffering?" that made me think the same thing. The winning silo is the Arc? Julliette is Moses?
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