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Fiction isn't a very good tool for shedding light on how things work

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Naomi K
Jun 24, 2014
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Source: National Geographic

Source: National Geographic

I used to think that the purpose of fiction was to make sense of the world. Fiction was a hypothesis about how certain people would act under certain situations. That’s why I was drawn to science fiction. By creating more outré and stylized situations, it was possible to make bolder statements about human behavior.

The problem …

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