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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Hoydenne‏ @iridienne 11 Dec 2020
      Replying to @nberlat @jkfecke and

      Do you think she's not?

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020
      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

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and

      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

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020
      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

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020
      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

      2 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and

      So, I mean, that's this ambiguous thing about "walking away" What are we walking away from exactly It seems like we're walking away from both -- by walking away from the idea of utilitarian sacrifice being morally acceptable we're walking away from utopia, period

      2 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and

      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"

      1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and

      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

      1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and

      The future being more real and more solid than the present Abstractions taking priority over the concrete

      1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and

      Taking this virtue ethics stance instead -- "utopia" is in the actions you personally choose to do or not do to the people around you right here and right now, not in the imagined future payoff that will make your present actions moot

      2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and

      The people of Urras, after all, justify everything exploitative and harmful about their system by what it makes, and dream furiously that someday it will make enough stuff that all the oppression will be paid for They make that case to Shevek as strongly as they can

      9:12 AM - 11 Dec 2020
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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and

          That's why they want *him*, they're thirsting for the magic engine they think his new theorem can create, they can taste the utopia they can build with that tech

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and

          They aren't unaware of the pain and suffering to all the children in all the closets their system has caused, they're acutely aware of it, they only grow more aware of it the more work they do to hide it, and they push *harder* to try to push *through* to when it will all pay off

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