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The problem to this view is that, as far as I have read Iain M Banks own comments on The Culture, he seems at least positively inclined, and he definitely is the kind of leftist that could plausibly like a society such as The Culture. So the most likely conclusion to me is that it is his best attempt at the kind of utopia he personally would want to live in, but with enough intellectual and moral integrity that he tries to seriously challenge it over and over again, as opposed to choose the easy way and give it challenges tailor-made to look good against..
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