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No, I think you're very right that the 2 are connected! Someone might feel an immense dissatisfaction with contemporary life, and that dissatisfaction is channeled into a particular vision of reality—aided by long-running misogynist or racist ideas. You're lonely and can't find love AND there's all this feminist rhetoric in the media? You feel economically disempowered AND there are more migrants arriving in your country every week? The latter must be causally producing the former…

I will have to watch some interviews now—I'm really fascinated at how different writers are in their demeanor vs their prose! Thanks so much for your very thought-provoking comment!!

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