FoolishOwl on Nostr: Now that you mention it, I feel like in a lot of mass media speculative fiction, ...

Now that you mention it, I feel like in a lot of mass media speculative fiction, there's a decline of the "sociological imagination". Like, it's not just uncritically deploying tropes or including familiar things that don't fit the context; it feels like a lack of interest in how societies might vary, like they don't really take seriously the idea that societies do vary.