![]() ![]() ![]() By the way, I just came up with that word, you owe me a nickle every time you use it.Īnyway, Howarth’s first books (The Institute Series) showed humanity’s enduring love affair with the other. There you go, the unspoken fact for the day: people aren’t that different from one another.īack in around 2013 or so, Kayla Howarth set out to write a series detailing the after-effects of a devastating war and the impact it had on society. We all love to give lip-service to the notion of diversity, but when faced with “the other” a lot of that bravado disappears.Īt least until we get to know “the other” and the nervousness disappears because we realize that most people really aren’t all that different. Much as we hate to admit it, we’re a clique-y group of primates who will put up with a lot from those are like us and tolerate absolutely nothing from everyone else. If there’s one thing we can safely assume about humanity, it’s that fear of the other is deeply ingrained into our consciousnesses. ![]()
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