Also - why are there so many "what if the Nazis had won" spec fic stories? I want to see some "what if the Nazis got shut the fuck down in 1929 and the Holocaust never happened" stories. https://t.co/FY7B4KhoYB
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I would also argue that any utopia is someone else's dystopia. Even disregarding the extremes of "a utopia for nazis is a dystopia for jews and everyone else," it's pretty impossible to imagine a world that would be a utopia for everyone
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True, actually. Which is why nearly every creative writing course in undergrad is usually filled with really depressing writing. It's just so much easier to write the sad stuff & while there's a lot of reasons for that, the biggest reason is that we have endless examples of sad.
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Also sadness provides a more urgent motivation for writing and art People write for all kinds of reasons, but I think it's fairly common that people are more likely to turn to writing to process negative emotions they can't deal with otherwise than positive ones
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I don't think it has to be utopic. I do think it would be an interesting world to explore.
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It could be in a similar vein to
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My greatest wish is to see TV show about "What if Kraken sunk every ship that tried to cross the Atlantic Ocean for 500 years"
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"What if gunpowder was never a thing" would be better, probably.
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I’ve noticed this with any sort of spec fic, but also, who benefits from thinking we live in the best possible universe? It’s a common theme we see pushed to the fore in media for a reason, especially with seeing so much recently
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"If we show them how it could be worse, they'll stop thinking we're so bad"
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