Wild with Sarah Wilson MARGARET ATWOOD: The Doyenne of Dystopia turns to creating climate utopias
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Mar 7, 2023 
Margaret Atwood, bestselling author of dystopian fiction, discusses her new project Practical Utopia and the importance of finding solutions to global problems. They explore the impact of economic conditions on women, the fascination of uncertainty, creating sustainable solutions, challenging societal expectations, and the issues with Twitter. They also discuss alternative platforms and express admiration for each other.
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Women's Roles Follow Economic Cycles
- Women's social roles shift with economic cycles and major wars, producing advances and backslides.
- Cultural fashions and laws often reflect those economic and wartime pressures.
The Circle Of Political Movement
- Societies move from a temperate center toward chaos or tyranny under pressure from extremes.
- Extremes can push moderates out and allow tyranny to arise if chaos intensifies enough.
Censorship Is A Reciprocating Weapon
- 'Cancel culture' and censorship are reciprocal weapons that get used against both sides.
- Those who enable shutting down speech should expect those tactics to be turned on them later.