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
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(You can immediately see why this metaphor is something that people would get frustrated and angry with But I mean on a certain level the brute fact of it is true These are the people we have, who currently populate the country and hold the power You work with what you got)
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he is an ur human superman! he's super average!
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That's the source of his "power" but his circumstances and society have warped him like they warp all of us, and perhaps particularly average white guys- The image of him in the dark, on the wood, that's him exhausted and unable to sync with nature, even if he...
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I mean, the thing is, that's true irl, too. At least in the US.
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The taoist idea of inaction is not that human-created-society doesn't need much changing cause it's pretty much okay. The taoist idea is that human-created society has fucked us right the hell up.
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