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
The story is allegorical, and if you think deeply about the computer you write on, you realize that the vast majority of us are happily staying in Omelas. Nobody's trying to free the child.
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Replying to @jkfecke @GiffordJames and
yes,, but, she's not criticizing people for not freeing thechild..
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Do you think she's not?
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Replying to @iridienne @nberlat and
The concept of freeing the Child is explicitly floated and then shot down, because of this controversial idea that was very clearly and explicitly stated when the Child was invented in the first place -- both Omelas and the Child only exist because of the Rule
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It is and always was just a thought experiment, if the Child goes then Omelas goes "What if the Child is freed but Omelas' prosperity remains" is off the table because it just up and negates the whole concept It was always just a thought-experiment
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
Well, not *just* a thought experiment -- the idea of Omelas, says Le Guin, is seductive to you because the utopia it represents fills some deep emotional need in you, you need to believe a place like this exists in some imaginary future
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
But the roadblock to imagining Omelas is imagining the Child You just can't imagine peace and prosperity without someone having to pay for it The logic in your head won't allow it, it doesn't work
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