Shit like this is what makes libs think consumption and entertainment are politics

This is NOT what I meant when I said read another book.

The Hunger Games is indirectly associated with greater collective action intentions via increased anger toward injustice.

so it doesn’t have a positive communist vision for the future, anti-politics are impotent and lame

There was a study a few years back that suggested that reading the Harry Potter books made kids more empathetic. I tend to think that’s just fiction in general. You get to see the inner life of a different person–why they do the things they do, their hopes and fears, etc. It turns out that all those strangers you pass every day are all people, not NPCs programmed to interact with you and then go still when you’re gone.

So anyway, I think reading fiction is good for your brain, but it’s certainly not doing politics. I have to say though that the fiction I read when I was a young idiot raised by conservatives helped me turn left when I grew up and started thinking for myself. Books like The Grapes of Wrath, The Jungle, Hard Times, etc really had a massive impact on me and how I thought about the world, bosses, and workers. I’ve never read The Hunger Games though, and maybe it’s just trash, but I don’t think it’s ridiculous to think it might get some kids going on the pipeline to the left. The question is what they’ll do when they get there.