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Found the Horza.
It's certainly an idea Banks addresses. Even most of the protagonists are those who have seen the life in the Culture and looked for something with meaning beyond existing in bliss, but I also think that The Culture is certainly the best option of those presented in the series.
If nothing else they're so rabidly anarchist (in the non scare tactic use of the word) that anyone who does not like The Culture just, you know, leaves, and they aren't even judged for it.