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
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So yeah there is what you'd call a kind of quietism there, what Dostoyevsky, the original source for the whole imagery with the child in the closet, would call Christian humility Although I think Le Guin herself is humble enough not to even call it universal human nature
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George Orr isn't all humans either, he's not an Ur-Human Everyman He's a specific guy, a white Middle American 1950s dude Unfortunately, we are all stuck in his world in TLoH and we have to deal with how far specifically the fabric of his mind can stretch before breaking
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Ahem. No gods, no masters. We'd be back to the child sacrifice again, even if we have to wait for it to grow up to 33.
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"And all the disciples forsook him and walked away from Omelas"
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