All I have to say to that is yikes. People like Farage really shouldn't be given any modicum of power. [Am I the only one who thinks YA authors should stop writing their dystopian novels and have a go at writing something truer to what we are seeing today?]
I think it's hard to write something that is truer to today because the present is constantly changing, and since that change is really small it's very hard to document it in a novel where the story has to keep moving at a good pace in order for it to be good. Nobody wants to read a 400 page novel on today when they can just watch the news for 5 minutes and get a gist of what's going on, y'know? But if you're writing a YA dystopian novel with politics, power and politicians in mind (e.g. The Hunger Games trilogy) then you have to describe the extreme case in order to engage with a younger generation that just aren't that interested in politics, so that they're left with an impression of the worst. I feel like extreme case scenarios, like the one described in THG, are a good way to remind us that prevention is the best cure to any disease. Plus I think I'd much rather read about a Europe devastated by WW3 than experience it myself, because then I can form some idea of how to prevent it by avoiding everything the characters went through in that book. I don't know if that makes any sense, but I don't think YA dystopians are too much of a problem, but I do agree that YA authors need to stop jumping on the bandwagon because they think their book might sell more if it's dystopian.
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