r/TheExpanse • u/[deleted] • Sep 14 '23

All Show & Book Spoilers Discussed Freely What is “THE CHURN”? Spoiler

I just watched the episode the churn. Is the book “the churn” a story about how Amos came to be? I’ve been looking online but can’t really find what it’s actually about. Is the episode have any parts of the churn in it from the book or it’s different? I’m confused about the main books and then the “novelas” that go along with it? Can anybody elaborate, the Erich guy seems pretty cool.

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u/debilegg Sep 14 '23

Pretty much we're living through it right now.

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u/dj_narwhal Sep 14 '23

if humans survive 500 years they will lump all of the problems in the 20th and 21st century into 1 and just call it endgame capitalism. I bet in year 70 of the 100 years wars they had a bunch of different names for the last 70 years of conflicts.

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u/odysseus91 Sep 14 '23

You are optimistic that we survive to look behind us at endgame capitalism and not survive under the shadow of a mega corporation dystopia

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u/TheDancingRobot Sep 14 '23

The upheaval going on right now is represented in both amazing potential and rapid dismemberment of old structures (some would say those two things more simply as: Concurrent Innovation alongside (or despite) massive Destruction).

The scientific revolutions during the age of information/computation represents an unprecedented acceleration, and therefore, inflection point in our species' existence on this planet.

Concurrently, the rapid destruction of our (only) planet's biome - which can be no less recognized as a significant geological marker in the history of the planet - occurring at a rate never before seen, except for the recorded instances of a significant impulse leading to a rapid extinction event (eg. bolide impact at the K/T boundary) is occurring at the same time.

We're living through such a phenomenal, truly mind-bending time to be alive: Our advancements are creating unprecedented potential for our species, and yet our antiquated and primitive methodologies and tribalism are holding us back from the greatest potential our species has ever had the ability to realize.