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
Haber's first big dream literally eliminates MLK from history I mean, this is extremely explicit in the story It's Heather's whole backstory -- her mom and dad met organizing for SNCC, her parents got together because of her white dad's efforts at performative allyship
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Replying to @arthur_affect @zhinxy_vs_media and
Does it? Or is MLK even there? It certainly seems like it’s Le Guin who erases him first...
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Replying to @nberlat @zhinxy_vs_media and
SNCC would not have existed if not for the civil rights movement And SNCC is central to Heather's backstory, and Heather is a major character
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Replying to @nberlat @arthur_affect and
If the activist efforts at change are a failure which shape Heather, and she’s gobsmacked by Orr’s quiet strength, and he rescues her from her anger through dreaming her as his wife...
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Replying to @nberlat @zhinxy_vs_media and
"Rescuing her from her anger" is not a positive thing -- Gray Heather, the version of Heather who is completely free of it, is a sign of the world becoming too unreal to function
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and
The "happy ending" of the story is one that restores Original Heather to the degree that she doesn't even remember meeting George, much less being married to him
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and
It's all authoritarian. This is why I don't like George. "Helping" isn't that same as "choosing on someone's behalf by eliding their capacity to do so."
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George doesn't really have a choice either, the dreams are unconscious -- that's supposed to be the horror of it, that they *don't* do what he consciously chooses to do
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GiffordJames and
And, I mean, the conceit of the scary reality warping here is that you can't meaningfully "choose" when confronted with it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GiffordJames and
Would I prefer to be replaced with a version of myself who didn't have any of my trauma? If I found out I *was* the improved version of myself from some other, more damaged yet more authentic version of me, would I prefer that one be brought back? Who could answer such a thing
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