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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That's my read, anyway, having wrestled with what the hell this story is supposed to be about a bunch In the context of stuff like The Dispossessed or The Lathe of Heaven "I'm not going to try to imagine some perfect world where perfect happiness exists It's too dangerous"
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Imagining Omelas means imagining the Child, it means having this image in your head of a place that doesn't exist but *could* exist and is so much better than the here and now around you that you'll excuse or commit atrocities in that here and now
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I think that's a pretty firm thread across her whole body of work. Again, I think it's most explicit in the close to Tombs of Atuan.
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I've tried to make something like that point, though not sure I hit it on the head:https://www.tor.com/2020/04/29/the-tombs-of-atuan-power-ideology-and-becoming-uneaten/ …
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