dieinafirenazi

dieinafirenazi t1_j3wwvcw wrote

Omelas is a very white liberal boomer story. My parents are both hippies who walked away from bougie families to live out in the woods, trying not to be part of a bad system. Of course in real life you can't really escape the system, but they tried and thanks to their privilege they could have land and freedom to raise some hippie kids and make a lot of art. Not a bad life at all, but also did they really change anything?

The Ones Who Stay and Fight seems to me to come from a much more grounded perspective. Walking away is just a safety valve for Omelas.

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