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 @zhinxy_vs_media and
Instead you get average quietist guy hero who does nothing except occasionally dream up a wife foe himself.
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Replying to @nberlat @arthur_affect and
remember, he's not in control of his dreaming.
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Replying to @zhinxy_vs_media @nberlat and
that doesn't mean there's nothing creepy about that, or that his desires don't enter into it, but remember how much he fears his own power
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Replying to @zhinxy_vs_media @arthur_affect and
Does the book see it as creepy though?!it’s pretty unclear.
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Yes, when Orr recreates Heather it's implied strongly he's uncomfortable with how it happened and how self-serving his mind is being and how badly it's warped reality to make what he once knew was impossible (a gray Heather) happen just to make him happy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and
Gray Heather appearing comes along with the signs that reality is fundamentally unstable and coming apart at the seams, logical contradictions everywhere, people having multiple sets of memories, random disasters
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and
In the final, "balanced" world, Gray Heather vanishes and is replaced by the original Heather, who was and is not married to George
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