Le Guin spends a lot of time trying to get us to imagine she knows we're going to have this imaginative resistance to a utopia where everybody's happy but also deep and smart. Now she's saying the place that they're going toward will be even harder for you to imagine so it's a perfect ambiguity She says I cannot describe it at all she's been so good at describing omalass right maybe it is a much better place maybe it's so terrible that she can't describe it who knows do they know where they're going what I was just suggesting is that this conveys their ignorance as well.
David and Tamler are pulled into Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas." Omelas is a truly happy city, except for one child who lives in abominable misery. Is that too high a moral cost? Why do some people walk away from the city? Why does no one help the child? Why does Le Guin make us create the city with her? Plus, we talk about our listener meetup in Vancouver, and a new edition of [dramatic music] GUILTY CONFESSIONS. Note: if this episode strikes you as too puritanical, then please add an orgy.
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