Why does speculative fiction - which could be about anything, anything, anything - revolve exclusively around battles, stereotypes, and reactionary politics? because fiction is designed to help us digest and to comment on the universe at hand. the universe at hand is hierarchical and filled with reactionary thinking (case in point...) and sexism and theism and so forth. it doesn't really do us any good to speculate on what life would be like without it, because that doesn't tell us anything relevant to our current experience. it doesn't help me to speculate on what life would be like, for instance, if i hadn't learned to think in a theistic manner, because it neither shows me how to change my thinking nor offers me a solution to theism
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