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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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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Tiptree's Houston, Houston, Do You Read is a chillingly effective story about utopia being created by a plague that kills everyone with a Y chromosome
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Yeah I see your point I mean obviously I haven't really discussed the themes of the story with any rigor I just think the premise it's starting from, "this shit is poison and once it's in you there's no antidote" is pretty valid
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Yeah but you and I *are* infected That's the thing where I think Jemisin didn't make her intentions fully clear
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