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Listeners offer their questions from narrator trust to activism to teaching controversy. I rant--or respond--back.
Can we pull this utopia dilemma together? Or will we add even more levels of complication?
Sure, the Omelas dilemma is tough, but at least we have our narrator as ally, right? Right? Perhaps the real horror in Omelas has less to do with the...
Is this story really about that suffering child? Or is it more about how we wall its suffering out, then invite it back in?
At last we settle in to think about Le Guin's Omelas story and set aside some common approaches to it. The first of several parts.