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    1. 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
    2. 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
    3. 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

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    4. 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
    5. 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
    6. 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

      1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
    7. 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
    8. 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

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

      In this set of stories Le Guin makes it really clear her feelings about omelettes and eggs, I think Anarres' ambiguous utopia is such because Anarres is dirt poor and the people live in relative poverty and yet the system is still worth defending in that poverty

      1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and

      It is not the kind of "utopia" where the political and economic system is so productive and profitable it lets the people invent a magic perpetual motion engine, Atlas Shrugged-style Indeed Shevek's story is about how their system works *against* that possibility

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and

      Le Guin was not a friend to gee-whiz futurism of the kind that characterized old-school Golden Age science fiction (just as Ayn Rand honestly was kind of an ultimate reductio ad absurdum of that mindset) Haber in Lathe of Heaven is kind of an avatar of that ideology

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and

          And just in terms of his personality he embodies what's repulsive about it He's just such a douche He's gets so *annoyed* whenever you bring up a child in the closet in Omelas "Fuck you, who says there has to be one? Dream bigger man"

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

          "If I had a dream machine, I would simply imagine a second City of Omelas, inside the closet, and therefore that Child would not be suffering but be happy And then assuming there was a smaller closet with a smaller Child, I would address the infinite regress with Cantorian sets"

          1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
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