It now being when Octavia Butler's 1990s "Parable" novels about a dystopic then-future United States are set; I've read several people writing about dystopic literature and other books as warnings about real social threats.
I am struck by something:
Part of what makes Butler's Parables so effective is how banal the evil is*.
She mostly does not try to make the villains of the story be interesting or cool or sympathetic.
Because real-life oppressors generally aren't.
*Borrowing from Arendt.
Michael Busch /
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