“Suzanne Collins does an amazing job of showing us, basically, a world that looks a lot like the world that we live in, and having us look at it and say, "how could anyone live in a world like that?" She also does a really admirable job of not blaming the participants of that society.”— Hank Green, youtube.comTagged: Hunger Games, World, Systemic Inequality
“Our deeply unequal society is not the result of a bunch of bad guys. We don't have a President Snow. Or, we do have a President Snow, but he's not a person. The thing that causes inequality isn't some corrupt politician, it's not a bunch of psychopathic CEOs. Inequality is caused by human nature, ps…”— Hank Green, youtube.comTagged: Inequality, Hunger Games, Metaphor
“Inequality is not the result of animosity, it is just the result of the status quo. It's complacence that causes it, not evil.”— Hank Green, youtube.comTagged: Inequality