Baby we ain’t even in Omelas. This place fucking sucks for everybody except the top 1%. Omelas at least only sucks for the bottom 0.00001%
If this is Omelas the kid in the basement is like billions of people
Reverse Omela; Ursula had a surprisingly optimistic vision of a utopia; only one person had to suffer for the Omela
(Alternatively, after everything colonial powers have done to the global South with the tacit and sometimes outspoken support by libs, reality was like ‘tag you’re it’)
I’ve never read the story because the basic premise sounded really stupid. By what mechanism did the suffering of one child bring about prosperity for millions?
I think it was explained as some supernatural reason that just made utopia a reality by this kid suffering; It was supposed to be more a metaphorical story than a serious one (which is ironic because real world omela is so much worse, but also real)
Not really ironic because thats the point of the story - it’s an intentional inversion of the real world that isn’t meant to highlight the horror of a single person’s suffering for the rest of society, but our entire society suffering for a handful of people.
I think thats the point. It didnt, everyone just believed completely that it did. I think a lack of clear mechanism is where the different takes come from. Its more of a thought experiment than a story.
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Ordering the breakfast special at Bob’s Burgers named The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelettes
IT SUCKS HERE AND I WANT OUT! LET ME LEAVE THE CHILD TORTURE FACTORY AUGGH!
Those Who Stab Their Way Out of Omelas
They won’t even let me buy a sword because they know i’d use it to kill the king of Omelas and free the kid.
We should make this a movie
The Omelibs would get upset
Don’t just walk away, burn the fucking place down they don’t deserve good things if their society is based on child torture.
People on Hexbear will really be like “You believe in leaving? That pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing Omelas” and then not firebomb Omelas.
cool comrades don’t look at the exploding omelas
Thats how you get dust and broken glass in your eyes.
It’s also how you see nothing changing and no explosion at all, so.
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First you must walk away from the Omelas in your mind
they don’t want you to know this, but “omelas” is an anagram for “israel” 😔
Omelas is supposed to be the whole Capitalist world. The kid is the Global South, it’s the poor, it’s the disabled, it’s everyone oppressed.
It drives me crazy that people think it’s an abstract argument or a philosophical thought experiment.
it is that and its also your own cynicism. she literally lays it out in the premise
Give the Omelas kid a nuke.
moving to an outer suburb of Omelas so we can have a three-car garage
Shouting at the clerk that you want to speak with the manager of Omelas until they have to call the cops to escort you out of Omelas and put up a picture of you saying not to let you in
Those Who Got Banned For Life From Omelas
we will never be free from the Omela Omerta
Omelas is an interesting thought experiment, unfortunately it doesn’t explain how did the society manage to produce itself based on the suffering of one child. There is nothing original in that book that hasn’t been written by philosophers 1000 years ago already.
If anything Omelas is just a totem used to distract you, all the exploitation conveniently blamed on a single one entity.
Take a car and drive through
