“Explains” is much too yang a word for what she’s doing here. It’s more “suggests”.

I happen to be interested in utopias where natural balance, not powerful authority, is what keeps things working, though history shows us that’s hard to achieve (to say the least).

Via the Adafruit blog.

https://electricliterature.com/ursula-k-le-guin-explains-how-to-build-a-new-kind-of-utopia-15c7b07e95fc