good grief, that seems like a leap.
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There's a long tradition of euphemizing anarchism as spiritualist, Romantic, quietist, or defeatist, etc. I'm fascinated by how Jameson will say "anarchism" then in the revised publication "quietistic" then "religious" & finally "anti-political."
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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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Replying to @nberlat @GiffordJames and
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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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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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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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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amusingly, Twilight actually agrees with Le Guin, which I like about it because it's so against the vampire tropes. (good vampires don't kill evil vampires because it would cause too much harm and also killing anyone is bad.)
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Everyone agrees with refusing to act because the cost is too great sometimes Otherwise we'd all be Leeroy Jenkins up in here
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and
I mean there's an arguable sense in which "I would save the child and burn down Omelas" is the George W. Bush neocon philosophy That was very much their whole shtick, yelling at everyone else for just being okay with the suffering of people under Saddam's rule
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