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It doesn't need to go "beyond" to have influence. Influencing people's imagination is influence.


Yes, but does can author truly predict how they'll misread their work? Should we treat the audience as cattle to be deprived of every emotion that doesn't serve some external political goal? The author might indulge in vividly painting their setting so its more surface level reading might appear desirable, but when its evils are not even subtle but are already just actual text, can you do much more to counteract bad actors trying to sell society than same dystopia brought to life?




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