As evidenced by the fact that most rich people are well adjusted, pro social people.

Honesty, why do leftists still believe this?

If you wanted to be uncharitable, you could say that this failure is deliberate because engaging with the emotional weight of what is happening in the story would reveal it to be far more dystopian than utopian. But I don’t know the author and their intentions, so that is just speculation.

Be that as it may, it does not change my point that it does not work as a story for me because nobody has any kind of emotional response to what is happening. That’s not a failure of politics, it’s a failure of storytelling.

I guess that’s why I can’t really fault people who read the story a a political tract instead of a short story.

Maybe it’s personal taste but I have difficulty engaging with this kind of writing. But then I have this issue with a lot of science fiction, where ideas take precedent over telling and engaging story that ring emotionally true.

That the family of the victim has to make a choice between taking part in a killing and letting a murderer be part of their family.
If would expect some kind of emotional response to a situation like that. And I can imagine a story about this setting that could be interesting.

An obvious critique of the story as a short story seems to be „none of these people have recognizable motivations or emotions“.

If this is supposed to work as a short story I would expect it to grapple with the fact that the family has to share intimate memories of their daughter with her murderer.

Which sounds a lot like “believe me instead of your own lying eyes”.

People are justifiably angry at the NYT. You don’t have to defend that institution to a bunch of people, some of whom have lost a lot as a result of the media treating Trump with kid gloves.

So you do agree that there is a bias there and it’s a problem. Because your earlier tweets very much sounded like you were saying there is not. That it’s just individual people making choices in a big company and no one is at fault no one could have done anything.

The way the Times and other legacy media constantly harped on “but her e-mails” and Biden’s age, while sane washing basically everything that has come out of Trumps mouth must be a product of my fevered imagination then. Good thing nothing bad happed, like the US descending into fascism.

So what you are saying is, there is a diverse set of journalists and opinions at the Times and while some might be hyper critical of the Democrats, others are huge supporters of Trump so it all evens out?

So weird, the city I live in doesn’t have a single office block but plenty of restaurants, shops, a theater, movie theaters, and a framer’s market right around the corner. We must be doing it wrong, I guess.

Ja schon klar, die Konservativen sind einfach gezwungen Mehrheiten mit Rechtsextremen zu suchen. Die haben keinerlei Verantwortung für das eigene Verhalten und sind nur Spielball zwischen den bösen Linksgrünen und den Rechten.

CDU/CSU arbeitet fröhlich mit Rechtsextremen zusammen. Wer ist Schuld? Die Grünen! Ja nee, ist klar. Wahrscheinlich sind die Grünen auch schuld, wenn der Sommer verregnet ist und der Wasserdruck bei mir in der Dusche scheiße ist. Und ich hab auch gehört, die können die Milch sauer machen.

I haven’t read them in forever and have no idea if they hold up.
But as a young girl it was an absolute revelation that someone like me could be the protagonist of a fantasy book and go on adventures.

When I was maybe ten I found the “Song of the Lioness” books by Tamora Pierce. It was the first time I read a book with a female protagonist, a young girl even.

It’s very 80s ‘girls can be everything they want’ but that was exactly what I needed to hear back then (probably showing my age with this)