When I was reading The Handmaid’s Tale couple of years ago it felt like borderline fantasy, worst possible scenario kind of thing. Now it feels like it’s maybe 5 years away.
Our whole continent collectively stopped analyzing fiction as warnings or analogies for what’s real.
Or more accurately, the line between absurd fantasy and reality was slowly eroded as politicians and officials continued to push the line into the realm of the unbelievable, that people stopped caring about the line.
Margaret Atwood specifically only included things that have already happened to women at some point in history so nobody could say it was far-fetched or out of the realm of possibility.
When I was reading The Handmaid’s Tale couple of years ago it felt like borderline fantasy, worst possible scenario kind of thing. Now it feels like it’s maybe 5 years away.
Our whole continent collectively stopped analyzing fiction as warnings or analogies for what’s real.
Or more accurately, the line between absurd fantasy and reality was slowly eroded as politicians and officials continued to push the line into the realm of the unbelievable, that people stopped caring about the line.
We’ve done it! At last, we’ve successfully created the torment nexus from the classic novel “Don’t Create the Torment Nexus!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlxGtKw2KAA
Margaret Atwood specifically only included things that have already happened to women at some point in history so nobody could say it was far-fetched or out of the realm of possibility.
I think significantly less than 5 years.