I build a world with fantasy master N.K. Jemisin
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Is There a Difference Between a System and a Person?
A lot of the debates that I watch going on right now are actually about whether to understand something as a contingent system erected by people in order to affect certain outcomes. A lot of the things that we think of as natural in our society are a defense mechanism meant to protect us against people that we perceive as coming to take our power and our privilege. And so if you introduce writers to the idea that everything that develops in a society has developed for a reason, it's not just natural, human behavior is learned, societies are developed. None of this stuff just happens. It makes those writers more conscious and more capable of depicting not just a secondary world but even our world.
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