“In a historic moment that requires a lot of institution building and incentive changing (technological challenges, climate change, inequality and accountability) we need all the sociological imagination we can get…"
Zeynep Tufekci, The Real Reason Fans Hate the Last Season of Game of Thrones. Scientific American (blog), 17 May 2019. Tufekci's premise is that Hollywood prefers narratives in which the protagonist's psychological virtues and flaws are in the spotlight rather than the overarching sociological context in which they operate.
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