Far Sector #3-4
Feb. 10th, 2023 07:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

The thing is, it’s a common science fiction concept. There’s nothing new about a society that outlaws emotion. What I wanted to explore with it though, was this is a society in the process of change. This is a society in which certain people have discovered how to subvert the lack of emotion and they are not so much lamenting the type of rebellion that happened in Equilibrium, but they’re coping with it. They’re struggling. They don’t have the learning to deal with it. Human beings spend their lives learning to master their emotions. If you had no emotions until you were 30 and then suddenly experienced anger for the first time, you would probably kill somebody. -- N.K. Jemisin
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