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!bookworms !nooticers what did Suzanne Collins mean by this?
!neolibs how do we classify Panem? It created monotowns, there's no free trade between the districts, no freedom of movement or goods, it has a totalitarian centralized government. It clearly has a planned economy even if The Capitol is the only city living under some resemblance of capitalism.
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It's Anarcho-tyranny
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Means fiction writers suck. They look at the facade of history, determine this must be how social/economical/political realities are. It's obviously very heavily borrowed from French aristocracy of the ancien regime. But if you're a true historychad, you would know French economy was expanding but it was beset with problems of tariffs which almost every once in a while caused local protests
The revolution, counter revolution, bourgeoisie, proleteriats are all byproducts of nameless and faceless officers of economic policies putting in and tinkering with economic experiments. Such is history I guess.
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I love a good clown show.
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I actually read all three when they were still new-ish to have things to talk about with my niece
(also read all four Twilight books
) I didn't get the sense that she intended any deeper coherent political commentary than translating Battle Royale/Lord of the Flies to a post-apocalyptic America. They were
but inoffensive and yes I feel ashamed for having read this much YA in my late teens/20s but family takes precedence over taste. !bookworms ![:marseycry2: :marseycry2:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseycry2.webp)
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Yeah I agree with this. They were inoffensive cheese written to read like a film and trap low attention span teens. Any resemblance to substantial social critique is/was accidental.
I read them very quickly while I was sick iirc. It was the book equivalent of a CW show, basically.
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Colonialism?
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