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
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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
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
And (this is a VERY Daoist theme) - society made Orr and shaped what he can dream
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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!"
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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.
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Replying to @nberlat @arthur_affect and
looking "a bit" like activists isn't much of an argument he's her comment on activism, though.
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Replying to @zhinxy_vs_media @arthur_affect and
He looks a lot like caricatures of activists, and there are no activists in this world to compare him to. So it seems reasonable to wonder what that says re her ideas about changing society.
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Replying to @nberlat @zhinxy_vs_media and
Like, our dreams are limited, bu my the limits have meaning, and here and in omegas part of the impossible dream is apparently that ppl like MLK exist.
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Replying to @nberlat @arthur_affect and
Well, Haber erased the civil rights movement!!!
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Replying to @zhinxy_vs_media @nberlat and
So we actually do know what Haber does in relation to Real Activists. Haber uses his magic sleeping dude to blink them out of existence!
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Yeah I mean... Haber as the arrogant white guy who thinks antiracism is as simple as "colorblind" policy is almost too on-the-nose of a metaphor It's only because Le Guin treats it with a deft touch that it isn't extremely trite
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