The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
ought to be mandatory reading for every adult in the Western world.
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
ought to be mandatory reading for every adult in the Western world.
Sometimes - to be able to live in the societies we do, we have to accept that there's very little choice. But if you live in full awareness that every choice you make to participate in it, there is a cost and effect that someone else has to experience.
One is example is Social Media moderators - for us to not see the worst of humanity, they have to experience it for us and make a decision that literally can manipulate people's opinions and preferences
If you actually read the thing, within the literal story it never says there's actually anywhere better, or any better place could exist.
It also plays on the comforts of differently structured societies like Le Guin does in The Dispossessed.