Well, this piece was inspired by my reading of the Le Guin story I mentioned. In that story, she, in fact, came across as a snowflake liberal, and that the story pushed your buttons this way means I apparently captured her tone. Nevertheless, her allegory in that story has been adopted into the cannon as a kind of literary metaphor for the liberal perception of society. I guess I included it because it was top of mind, and because typically I hate allegory because most people tend to over-interpret literature to find “hidden meanings” behind every story, which I think is dumb, so I wanted to do a piece that wouldn’t otherwise come naturally to me.

Look, I’m a writer, I write whatever the fuck I feel like whenever I feel like it. I don’t have an agenda, nor am I interested in embarking on a campaign of railing against or for any particular cause. I write about whatever strikes my fancy on any given day. If you see something I write the seems atypical for me, it’s probably because I read something outside of the kind of stuff I typically read, which I think is a good thing for everyone to do — always expand your horizon of ideas and perspectives.