Read A.D. Ultman's interview with Flaunt

A.D. Ultman, author of recently released Animal Town, sits down with Flaunt to discuss his book and political extremism.

An excerpt from the interview: “People now tend to be so unwilling to hear from the other side, perhaps more than any time in recent memory. I wanted to use the same method as George Orwell in Animal Farm to use animals and hopefully create a little bit of a gap between reality and the perception that sort of allows us to take an allegorical leap in our minds. If we're thinking about animals, that little metaphorical distance can usually be useful…The reason I was able to do that is that we've sort of seen this movie before. When you have ascendant tribalism, based on immutable characteristics or aspects of one's identity, that is not susceptible to the argument, it leads to tragedy time and time again. We've seen this all over the world right up from the reformation, and much further back in time and all the way up to the present. For a person like me, who is really a student of history and political theory, it's all too clear where I think this all ends up. Let's just hope that the third act of my book is not borne out.”

Read the complete interview here.

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