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    1. 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"

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

      I do think about the wacky fact that all the new worlds created in The Lathe of Heaven are literally inside Orr's mind That there's one reading of the story where literally nothing is happening but Orr having a dying hallucination after a nuclear war

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

      Le Guin is careful not to say anything about the objective external universe in The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas It's not the *world* that says the Child has to exist, it's not God who says it, it's not "natural law" It's *you*, it's *your imagination* that can't handle it

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

      The reason Haber's dream machine keeps on fucking up and not actually making the perfect utopia Haber carefully programmed into it is the machine doesn't do the dreaming George Orr's brain does the dreaming The world can only be as perfect as Orr can imagine it being

      3 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
    5. Magister Ludicrous Speed‏ @zhinxy_vs_media 11 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and

      And (this is a VERY Daoist theme) - society made Orr and shaped what he can dream

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
    6. Magister Ludicrous Speed‏ @zhinxy_vs_media 11 Dec 2020
      Replying to @zhinxy_vs_media @arthur_affect and

      To come back around to my biggest issue with Noah's piece - Haber is NOT an "activist." Haber does not agitate for change in his society. Haber has dreams of heroism, sure. But only when a magic dude who can change reality falls in his lap does he go "I can make shit happen!"

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
    7. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat 11 Dec 2020
      Replying to @zhinxy_vs_media @arthur_affect and

      There aren’t any activists though in that world. Haber looks a bit like caricatures if activists I think. Like, he’s not MLK, but ppl said MLK was like him, and LeGuon doesn’t contest him with actual activists, but with perfect balance George.

      4 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020
      Replying to @nberlat @zhinxy_vs_media and

      Heather is explicitly the child of two activists, whose life has been deeply shaped by the legacy of civil rights activism and who considers herself steeped in that tradition

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

      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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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and

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

      But the idea is powerful if you don't push it too much Simply *wishing* that oppression didn't exist does not constitute fighting against oppression It is, quite literally, erasure of the people who live in that oppression and whose identities were shaped by it

      10:00 AM - 11 Dec 2020
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        1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and

          Accidentally erasing Heather is very much a commentary on the whole concept of "colorblindness" and a white-centered theory of antiracism that tries to simply annihilate racism by defining it out of existence -- making laws and institutions that refuse to acknowledge it

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