How does “the ones who walk away from omelas” fit in here? Do you read quietism there?
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Replying to @cheerlessdrudge @GiffordJames and
you know, i either have not read it or have forgotten it! I need to read it I know...
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Replying to @nberlat @cheerlessdrudge and
I’ve got a whole study guide on it! Well, “Ones” (not “Those” that student use more often than not) suggests the individual as meaningful; the allusions in it to Dostoyevsky, James, & Arendt on power; & the contrasts among deontological, consequentialist, & virtue ethics.
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Replying to @GiffordJames @nberlat and
Despite recognizing the evil some would commit to achieve a utopia, she shows the ones who leave rather than fight to impose their own new utopia. We don’t know where they’re going or what it will be, only that they’re not contributing to the banality of evil.
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Replying to @GiffordJames @cheerlessdrudge and
okay I just read it and OMG must Russ have *hated* that story. The Two of Them seems specifically like an outraged response to it!
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Replying to @nberlat @GiffordJames and
you don't walk away! you rescue the kid, if you can!
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Replying to @nberlat @GiffordJames and
Well I mean I feel like people kind of read this story backwards Like if you want Omelas, a completely imaginary place, to exist without the kid, you can just stop reading before she makes it up She openly says this, it's all out on the table
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and
She puts the kid in because otherwise Omelas isn't a real place, it's literally unimaginable It would be a pointless and unpublishable story, just someone masturbating over an impossibly idyllic paradise for no reason
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and
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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Replying to @Cybren @arthur_affect and
Well, sure, but in the case of the Le Guin story it's actually a trenchant observation, too?
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In the case of the Le Guin story she literally says this There's no fourth wall, she walks us through the creation of Omelas as a thought experiment, then addresses the reader saying "But you don't actually believe any of this do you"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
And then warns you that you're not gonna like the next part probably so maybe put the story down now but if you're annoyed at how all this wank about perfect happy people doesn't seem to have any point to it keep reading
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