Why do dystopian scifi worlds all seem to have achieved multiracial harmony when collapse IRL amplifies polarization? Wishful thinking"
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Are sf writers afraid people don’t want to read about such familiar and problematic issues? They assume an escapism quotient?
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oil suspect it's just very hard to execute technically. Writers rarely lack courage.
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because unless it would advance the story it is not useful. It would only serve as a distraction.
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unless they were created by the very forces that promote racial harmony, becoming too powerful (war on Xmas, safe space, PC principal)



