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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      Le Guin's image of the Child is (indirectly) taken from The Brothers Karamazov, and Jemisin is returning to that same source The "social workers" in her utopia have fully accepted the burden of the Grand Inquisitor - "Only we who guard the mystery will be unhappy"

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    2. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 7 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      Yeah I guess? Idk I don't think it's nearly as dystopian as Omelas and kind of speaks to my convictions that once the poison is in you it's not coming out, that the only cure for the MAGA crowd is to outlive them one way or another

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Feb 2020
      Replying to @Nymphomachy

      It doesn't bother you to imagine a world where the one possible sin is curiosity, and bad ideas are a contagion that must be stamped out by force?

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      That the dead man's daughter is diagnosed as "infected" because her reaction to her father's death is vengeful anger rather than having enough faith in her society to ask what the socially necessary reason was for him to be killed?

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      Note that the infection clearly isn't specifically something like "racism", it's the basic concept of *selfishness* The little girl's mind is diseased because she cares more about her dad than about the abstract idea of society and the welfare of strangers

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      Seriously, it says that once your mind is infected by bad ideas the only two options are death or having brain implants that render you incapable of acting on those ideas And all of us in the real world are so infected and could only have one of these fates in that society

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      It's straightforwardly dystopian by most people's standards and I can only read Jemisin as being ironic or at least intentionally provocative with it It's an attempt to mimic the deliberately confrontational tone of the original Omelas story that I'm not sure came off

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      I'm not saying I fully reject the mindset of the story but the presentation didn't work on me The tone of Omelas worked because it was an ironic tragedy, the hectoring voice of the narrator trying to get the reader to accept something the author, irl, doesn't accept

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      The snark about the paradox of tolerance notwithstanding, the situation in this story obviously is tragic - the only way to deal with bad ideas is to ban them? Nothing can defeat racism but murder and brain implants? - but the tone doesn't really acknowledge it

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      I mean you can't just crumple up the paradox of tolerance and throw it away The paradox of intolerance is just as bad - great, as soon as someone says anything evil they should get two in the back of the head Now who gets to decide what counts as evil

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      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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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Feb 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

          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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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Feb 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

          The thing is it reads as science fiction pessimism of a school I'm really fine with but it rubs me the wrong way to not see it treated as pessimism

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