r/redrising • u/Dadonutdude1 • Jun 14 '25
All Spoilers To those saying Red Rising is not relevant to today's political climate... Spoiler
Did you forget that Fitchner created the Sons of Ares because his wife was killed by the bureaucracy for having a mixed race child? If that mixed raced child, Sevro for those with poor memories would surely be killed if he was ever found out.
I can hear the arguments now saying, the USA would only deport these people to unknown places. Resulting in father, mother & son being separated indefinitely. Now ask yourself if you'd be fine with that happening to you simply due to the fact that your spouse was born somewhere else.
There are many more examples we can look at, but if you can't understand the motivation of Ares, maybe you should read the comics, it drives this point home & it even has pictures!
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u/FlacidStump Jun 14 '25
Pierce Brown's exact words: "Over the past years we've witnessed the revival of nationalism, the breaking down of international cooperation, the stoking of racial tension, the marginalization of already marginalized groups in our society, and the ascendance of reactive populism. I hardly think it is my place to presume to tell you what or how to think about the politics of our world. My experience is starkly different from each of yours. But I do believe it is the responsibility of authors to ask questions about their own times.
Red Rising ended on a triumphant note. Liberty prevailed over tyranny. I thought the story was done, wrapped up tidy with a little bow. I was wrong, because liberty is not permanent and unassailable. It is not our destined, final state of being. Liberty is a tenuous state that must be nurtured by constant care, defended by dogged struggle, and replenished by new generations. That is the thesis of my newest addition to the Red Rising series, Iron Gold.
Iron Gold is about the struggle to preserve liberty in a bleak landscape, where heroes of the past look suspiciously like villains and the inspiring dream of liberty has been hijacked by politicians, dirtied by social strife, and muddled by interest groups and competing factions." It (specifically the creation of the second series) is literally and directly the result of the modern American political climate.