kinda why i regard most classic SF as cultural masturbation, stroking your worldview by projecting it into the far future where it still holds, revealing what you knew all along, that it is fundamental truthhttps://twitter.com/MothRecess/status/921229629326729216 …
you'll always have to contend with the corn-pone values of the mass market if you're writing for the mass market, i'm not of a mind to excuse milking that instead of challenging and subverting it on that basis