Fun read, but it felt like the same message as the original, told a bit less tightly. Not that stories have to have a message — the prose by itself was great — but for me this one feels like it was driving at something else but didn’t arrive anywhere.
If others took something else away I’d love to hear.
This was a Stargate Atlantis plot!
What a horrific nonsensical rant that clearly misses the point of the story.
Save yourself the eyesores, don’t click.
The Omelas narrative challenges the psychological maxim that someone must suffer for the common gain.
It is a short story, and like all short stories accentuates a tiny detail into a worldview.
In what way does Ursula roll in her grave?
Gaza, or #metoo, or thriving race hate, or the pedopolitics (here come scathing karma killers.)
To be silent in the face of a tyranny of evil is to be complicit.
Rest easy Ursula, you have been heard.
Can someone give me a quick intro to what the "kid in the Omelas Hole" means? I started reading the article and it made zero sense. I tried googling but all I got was that article again.