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Who is watching the Wheel of Time on Amazon?
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<blockquote data-quote="The happy Objectivist" data-source="post: 76389496" data-attributes="member: 429069"><p>Robert Jordan explained that he needed time to be circular because he wanted their myths and legends to be based on ours and ours to be based on theirs. I think they'll go into all that as the show unfolds. But basically time is a wheel. The one power comes from the true source and is the force that turns the wheel. It has two halves that work with but also against each other. The male half, called saidin, was tainted by the dark one when the last dragon sealed up his prison. Each turning of the wheel takes 3 or 4 thousand</p><p> years. With each turning the dark one tries to break free and break the wheel of time so that he can remake the world in his vision which is of course evil. The taint caused all the male aes sedai to go mad and they destroyed the world with the one power. It had been a near utopia before and people are still picking up the pieces 3 thousand years later. </p><p></p><p>I don't know if Robert Jordan meant this but I see it as the same battle that has been going on throughout our history. It's basically a battle between Plato and Aristotle. Plato represents the shadow and Aristotle the light. Whenever Plato is the dominant influence things get bad, really bad, and whenever Aristotle holds sway things get better and we start to head towards that utopia. Right now we are under Plato's influence and so things are starting to get bad again. The time we are in now represents the stage of the cycle in the book. Shadow rising.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The happy Objectivist, post: 76389496, member: 429069"] Robert Jordan explained that he needed time to be circular because he wanted their myths and legends to be based on ours and ours to be based on theirs. I think they'll go into all that as the show unfolds. But basically time is a wheel. The one power comes from the true source and is the force that turns the wheel. It has two halves that work with but also against each other. The male half, called saidin, was tainted by the dark one when the last dragon sealed up his prison. Each turning of the wheel takes 3 or 4 thousand years. With each turning the dark one tries to break free and break the wheel of time so that he can remake the world in his vision which is of course evil. The taint caused all the male aes sedai to go mad and they destroyed the world with the one power. It had been a near utopia before and people are still picking up the pieces 3 thousand years later. I don't know if Robert Jordan meant this but I see it as the same battle that has been going on throughout our history. It's basically a battle between Plato and Aristotle. Plato represents the shadow and Aristotle the light. Whenever Plato is the dominant influence things get bad, really bad, and whenever Aristotle holds sway things get better and we start to head towards that utopia. Right now we are under Plato's influence and so things are starting to get bad again. The time we are in now represents the stage of the cycle in the book. Shadow rising. [/QUOTE]
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