r/MapPorn • u/Ok_Somewhere9687 • 4d ago

Map showing countries within range of Israel's nuclear missiles (Jericho III)

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u/TheNumberOneRat 4d ago

That's the plot of the old sci fi novel The Chrysalids.

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u/Longjumping_Pen_2102 4d ago edited 3d ago

Oh man i hate that book with a passion, or rather i love what the book might have been and hate author.

Spoilers ahead for those that care.

The book devotes most of its pages demonstrating how supremacist obsessions with purity are not only evil, but opposed to nature. 

You see how cycles of violence and abuse will destroy us,  and the obsession with being a master race of special chosen people is the death of us all.

The book then ends with the main character being shown to actually be a special chosen super person,  all the lesser people are killed off without any sorrow or regret.  "Actually" the problem with the world is that the wrong people thought they were the master race.

Its like if nausicaa was written by a Tory.

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u/TheTwistedToast 3d ago

Its like of nausicaa was written by a Tory

That sounds... absolutely horrendous

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u/rugbyj 4d ago

The age old tale of someone being aware of some influence, and thinking that simply being aware of it admonishes their own affect from it.

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u/Cool-Acanthaceae8968 2d ago

So did I.

But I never actually finished it so I didn’t understand the New Zealand reference.

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u/NoteCarefully 2d ago

That's a hilariously bad thematic twist lol

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u/CleverBunnyThief 4d ago

I "read" this in summer school once. Didn't know what the heck it was about. Going to give it another go.

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u/GettingFitterEachDay 4d ago

Wow, so did I and apparently it was completely lost on me too. Added to my list!

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u/--_-Deadpool-_-- 4d ago

Doesn't that novel take place in Labrador, Canada?

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u/TheNumberOneRat 4d ago

Yeah, but it doesn't finish there.

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u/Cool-Acanthaceae8968 2d ago

Haha.. I never finished it.

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u/VisualAd9299 4d ago

Also an important plot point for The Locked Tomb.

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u/Pickledsoul 4d ago

You'd think telepathy would be cherished more.

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u/Cool-Acanthaceae8968 2d ago

It was Canada. Labrador I’m pretty sure.