hah. I mean, I think criticizing Le Guin as quietist is sometimes reasonable, obviously, since I did that, butseems like a long leap from there to "fascist".
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"Those who walk away" are only seen on the road, never at their destination It's her own dig at herself, the notorious difficulty of trying to actually describe a world without governments, without property, without police, without violence
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All these words for what you don't have (even the word "anarchy" is a negative word for a lack of something) and so few words for what you think you'd have instead
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Took me decades to see it as an allegory of colonialism and slavery.
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Yup. And it hasn't changed. I'm typing this reply on a phone that almost certainly contains metal mined by children. The truth is we're all living in Omelas, and nobody is walking away.
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