00:00I think the most important human power is imagination and not just like in like imagination
00:05fun way but in a genuine how can this be something different because if you only rely what's on what's
00:12in front of you to inform what could be you're just going to be in a circle all the time you
00:16can't really make real progress and so I think the speculative space is a chance for both the
00:21reader and writer to stretch that essential human power which is imagination and do exactly what
00:27that young person just did and you have to be able to do that that is the if you if you can't do that
00:33you can't build new systems you can't build new institutions you can't build a new better life
00:36and so when these people particularly men say that I actually get genuinely sad about it because men
00:43are allowed to exist in this very narrow space they can't be too angry they can't ever be sad
00:49god forbid they can't read fiction somehow that fits into like almost like loftiness or whatever
00:55they gotta wear this certain kind of boring shit over here like it's a very lame small boring
01:00lame for men to exist and I think speculative fiction and speculative fiction authors are
01:05remind are sort of reminding us that like we can push past that
01:08you
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