This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.
I use myself as a measuring yardstick, and so if I come up with an idea that really scares me, then I'd like to think that people out there would feel the same way as well.
We have people being a little uncomfortable in their life on Earth with finances and so on, so Science Fantasy or Science Fiction allows people to think that there are possibilities beyond the gravity of our planet.
I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.
Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.
It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.
A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show - in this rush to fantasy, romance, whatever - is that we actually still want to believe in a world of possibility, in a world of mystery.
A lot of people have to deal with the feeling that their worlds are caving in.
It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
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