# What works of art/literature best address the following polical/policy questions?

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**Created:** [October 19, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-works-of-art-literature-best-address-the-following-polical-policy-questions/557651 "2010-10-19T13:41:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![FlyingRat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/59ef9b/32.png) [@FlyingRat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRat)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-works-of-art-literature-best-address-the-following-polical-policy-questions/557651/21 "2010-10-21T14:13:52Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> [Spider Robinson.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_Robinson)

Seconded a thousand times.

Callahan’s Law: “Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased—thus do we refute entropy.”

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**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-works-of-art-literature-best-address-the-following-polical-policy-questions/557651/22 "2010-10-22T07:41:22Z")

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Ursula K. LeGuin’s book “The Dispossessed” had a lot to say about capitalism and socialism.

Heinlein’s “Starship Troopers” has a lot to say about how governments manipulate people … much more subtly and intelligently described than in the movie based on the book, and I thought the movie was pretty good.

“Weapon Shops of Isher” deals with the limits of government control.

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