Margaret Atwood on Good, Evil and Stupidity
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The Handmaid's Tale
When conditions are unstable, there is a great inclination to topple governments and try to replace them with something else that people fondly hope will do better. I think it's unstable conditions that create anger and desperation. And then political actors either try to increase that to make it really, really unstable or they say things like, I alone can fix it. Because they're desperate. They don't want to be shot in the back of the head. It's fear and also accidents.
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