The thought process leading to action is something like:
What are the facts? => How do I feel about them? => What am I going to do about it?
But it turns out these thorny political issues have been unsolved problems for so long because there's a lot of complexity and nuance to them. Action gets tied up and dies in the first stage, and you never get to the part where emotion and passion come in.
Fiction shifts this process to:
Assume these are the facts. How do I feel about them? => Is this a reasonably good model of what's actually going on in the real world? => What am I going to do... (read more)
The thought process leading to action is something like:
What are the facts? => How do I feel about them? => What am I going to do about it?
But it turns out these thorny political issues have been unsolved problems for so long because there's a lot of complexity and nuance to them. Action gets tied up and dies in the first stage, and you never get to the part where emotion and passion come in.
Fiction shifts this process to:
Assume these are the facts. How do I feel about them? => Is this a reasonably good model of what's actually going on in the real world? => What am I going to do... (read more)