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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Replying to @GiffordJames @nberlat and
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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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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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and
You, not someone else, which is also her point. The difference between "replace myself" and "be replaced" in the passive voice.
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