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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The first and biggest "unwanted side effect" of Haber's utopian dreaming is when Haber's high-handed decision to simply wish away the concept of racism and race erases Heather completely Her personal history was so tied up in that history that without it she ceases to be
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Again, a potentially very hamfisted metaphor and one best dealt with with a light touch (the problematic implications of this are, in a sense, addressed by the decision to have George "dream bigger" in a subsequent dream and somehow, unexpectedly, bring her back)
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And in that sense is perhaps something of a self-insert, inasmuch as Le Guin would do that sort of thing. (The Kroebers were best known as anthropologists but they were both very passionate about the rights of Native Americans as well, and did various kinds of work there.)
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