Episode 163: Should I Stay or Should I Go? (Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas")
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Is There a Paradise?
Ursula K. Le Guin, who we lost recently in 1973, wrote a short story about utopia. The city of Omalas is described as using all of the flowery language you would use to describe an idyllic fairy tale scene. It requires that one child be living in a dark damp basement with very little light and nothing around them. Some people choose to actually go look at this kid and what they do after doing so is crucial to the story.
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