![]() It helps put it in perspective that it wasn’t always like this and it won’t always be like this. Part of alt-history is to create a different roadmap for the ways things can go, but not necessarily in a positive or negative way. ![]() Believe it or not, political polarization was not that bad even 15 years ago. Even going back that far, there was this sort of detachment from the political reality of the rest of the world, sort of as a coping mechanism at the time. There was a time, not so long ago, when people could be shamed, but only about certain things. I guess it kind of goes to show that people have just become so acclimated to this climate of shamelessness. ![]() Bush would resign if he were caught lying under oath about first contact. One of the more common criticisms I got from the first book was that it was unrealistic that George W. The Murdoch machine was there 15 years ago, but we were just kind of seeing its birth, not its effects. I think people have already forgotten how things were 15 years ago but not as powerful. There’s this sort of revisionist history that things have always been like this, of what people think normal is now. How do you think alt-histories help an audience make sense of their recent past? ![]() Last time we talked about critical nostalgia, but you’ve now moved firmly into alt-history territory. ![]()
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