The Ones Who Stay and Fight is just as ambiguous as the original Omelas story Like if you actually think that's a positive image of utopia it's pretty fucked up
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The reason I don't believe in Um-Helat isn't just that I don't believe a system run by secret police stamping out thoughtcrime is unstable, although I do think that It's that I don't buy such a system would've been set up by the good guys in the first place
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How did they breed out selfishness - the original sin of "seeing others as less than human" - but be simultaneously create a caste of police who summarily execute people Those two things don't go together
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I get what you are saying and yeah, I’m also troubled by the implications about bad ideas. But I find it compelling because in our current reality, we really ARE facing the fact that the things we were told would defeat racism; education, argument, reason, etc. have-
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-utterly failed to defeat it and other forms of bigotry, and indeed have been hijacked (as has free speech in Pen’s original point) to, in fact, FURTHER these things.
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