Societal style finds the responses to these questions. When one style of response collides with another style, enormous tension is created. The reason for the tension is that you are being told that there are other answers to what you have held fundamental to your existence. Sometimes a response will take the form of a book. I'm writing about my particular world.
Novelists are particularists.
A novelist is not an oracle. He is gifted with no prophetic wisdom. I'm writing about my own particular world because that's all I know to write about. We're still very frightened by the power of this civilization. It constantly asks us to check our statements and value judgements.