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I don't know enough to know if your ascription of those "ills" to those authors is accurate, but I certainly find it refreshing to see someone asserting that no, it's not "just fiction" and the art we create and consume changes us, and changes society, not always in a good way.

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I've often thought that if the American libertarian party renamed themselves "The LeGuin Party" they might get a lot more members.

Such members would be unlikely to support their "I've got mine, fuck you" ideology.

You're thinking of communists, establishment conservatists and wealthy progressives. Libertarians are the opposite of that.

"Libertarians are like house cats. They are convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don’t appreciate or understand."

The converse of this actually exists. There's a fan award called the Prometheus Award given by the "Libertarian Futurists" which is often jokingly called the "Scottish Socialist Award", given how many times they've awarded it to works that are perhaps equally anti-extant-state but with virtually all other politics at odds. (And in some cases, IMO, strong misreadings of the awarded work.)

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