good grief, that seems like a leap.
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In the meta, literal sense, Omelas cannot exist without the kid That's its REASON for existing, it's where the story comes from No one ever tells stories about utopias except to expose their hidden flaw and falsity
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It could be a statement about the nature of the world or just the limits of human imagination Anytime someone starts telling a story about how "everyone in this society is just nice to each other and there's no oppression" it feels fake, we don't buy it, it's irrelevant to us
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This is my “I can define my own ending in any video game by just reaching an arbitrary point in the story and turning it off and never resuming” take
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Well, sure, but in the case of the Le Guin story it's actually a trenchant observation, too?
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