Atwood wrote her dystopia Handmaids Tale that way. Some token protests, at first, after Rod fell, but mostly people just watched and waited to see what happens until it was over. Suddenly one morning all women woke up to their bank accounts gone, transferred to husbands, if they had them. Houses, transferred. Then panic attempts to escape, etc, etc, you know the story once the passivity regarding transition is over.

That’s fiction. The point is Atwood is an academic and an author. To be an author who writes about people, and is also successful, you have to know how people work. Art mimics life mimics art and so the cycle goes.

Atwood wrote that level of passivity regarding rape, enslavement, the execution of unimportant husbands, and the removal of children to important people who couldnt have them organically. She wrote true to life for that piece, the passivity. “Waiting and seeing” right up until someone in power breaks down your door.

Our current real life passivity is, thus far, about nebulous data, democracy, and a constitution most people haven’t even read.

Too bad. People still are not ready apparently