Yeah. The lesson from any author familiar with totalitarianism is that you don’t win. It’s the boot on the face, for ever.
It’s then a question of whether and how you can retain your humanity.
This has been known by authors of colour and women for 200 years, of course.
good guys winning is for
- children’s stories
- sweet naive summer children from that late 20th century blip in the human existence
- people who are actually the bad guys
- all of the above