In his analysis of AFW and ROD, Peter Sloane suggests that these two novels are “works of personal and political propaganda masquerading as the often ethically distasteful memoirs of a superannuated generation” (2018, p. 156). Pointing out the propagandist role of both the protagonists, he adds that Ono could overstate the consequences of his propaganda, but Stevens must also magnify the role of Lord Darlington “in culturing an international political consensus to soften some of the punitive conditions leveled on the German republic in the treaty of Versailles and, subsequently, in condoning and facilitating the British government’s appeasement of the Nazi regime prior to World War II” (2018, p. 160). As Ishiguro points to an idea in an interview that he considers to be universal, that is, that we have a tendency to follow strong leaders (Mason, 1986, p. 10). The above quote is suggestive in the sense that it perhaps points to Thomas Hobbes’ idea that suggests that we should leave ourselves in the lap of an “absolute monarch” and not question him. And in not doing so, he adds, we would fall into the state of nature that is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” (1998, p. 84). As Aljazeera, a news channel based in United Arab Emirates, quotes Mohan Guruswamy, who works with the Centre for Policy Alternatives, a thinktank, saying, “I think everyone is looking for strong leadership. This places Modi at an advantage. He’s showing that he’s a strong leader” (India Announces Election Dates, 2014, para. 13). Both Stevens and Ono, without questioning, follow what their employers command and are “so deeply implicated in the destructive values of an imploded imperial past that they do not understand (although the reader must) how the world has changed around them” (MacKay, 2011, p. 53). In effect, prominent individuals turn away from their roles and beckon to the call of the collective, majoritarian perspectives, a trend that can have observed both in the novels and in the “godi” media. As Gudavarthy points out that the “godi” media has abdicates its responsibility (Gudavarthy, 2018).