Yes, in part, the struggles of a person inside a utopia would be difficult for an audience to appreciate, so The Culture novels and Star Trek both take the action to the margins, where things are messy and the struggles are more familiar.
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lime@feddit.nu 2 days agofrom inside it, yeah. but the people fighting against them don’t see that part. the first book makes it pretty clear that they see the culture as a ruthless unfeeling war machine that absorbs worlds into its ideology without consent.
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Sibilantjoe@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Ah, I see what you mean now.