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The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
2016-04-28 00:05:43 Post No. 7973052
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2016-04-28 00:05:43
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Help me out here, guys. I'm completely stumped. I read this about a year or two ago and assumed it was a critique of the tendency to make genre fiction (or fiction in general) edgy and grimdark because that's "realistic".
I found I didn't quite understand where Le Guin was going with it, so to speak. Was she saying she eschewed the edginess - that she had walked away? Refusing to let her work fall into laziness etc? But I didn't really care.
Recently, the story/essay/whatever was mentioned in connection with an alleged child molestation epidemic in SF circles of the time. I thought it was BS and decided to google a few analyses to see what was going on. Turns out most analyses don't think it's any way a reflection on fiction. They seem to think it's a real-world political allegory.
I'm aware of the Henry James connection to utilitarianism, but can any kindly passer-by help me out here? What the hell is this actually about?