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Originally Posted by ApK
No. Through any given period over the history of literature, people have fought vast wars, committed wide-spread crime, faced plagues and natural disasters, experienced economic strife, treated people unjustly, committed atrocities, oppressed societies, saw doom in the future.
During those very same periods, people made peace, cured diseases, increased prosperity, protected human rights, freed societies, and saw hope in the future.
Which stuff you want focus on and write about is a matter personal outlook and choice, not an inevitability, and either way is very much a coincidence with any particular facet of the state of the world, and an unavoidable coincidence at that.
ApK
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Everything good in the world is the result of people who imagined a better world and worked to make things better. Perhaps it takes a much worse world than this to make people imagine a better one. When people say that this world is so awful that it is obvious that people will write dystopias, I say "comapred to what?" Let's not look at the past with rose-colored glasses. I'm certainly not saying that there is no place for dystopias, we do need to be reminded of dangers. But the world isn't so bleak something better can't be imagined. I'd like to see some more balance, but of course the market will determine what books sell.