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Megamissen posted:ur$ula KKK le guinn
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Flournival Dixon posted:I really like a lot of le guins stuff even if she was a dumbass white american anarchist but The Telling has the unfortunate honor of being the only audiobook I've ever stopped listening to part way through. It's astounding how stupid white people are when it comes to china lol Lmao, yeah, only read an introduction to one of the story collections, and after three lines in I arrived at "oh no"
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the repossessed
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Flournival Dixon posted:I really like a lot of le guins stuff even if she was a dumbass white american anarchist but The Telling has the unfortunate honor of being the only audiobook I've ever stopped listening to part way through. It's astounding how stupid white people are when it comes to china lol i dont know this one but i read her translation of the I Ching and it was funny how much she'd change the things she didnt like, sometimes being like "he probably didn't mean this, i changed it to x" and sometimes being like "i've excised this whole chapter because its distracting from the real message" every time lao tzu goes "peasants should know their place" or "women shouldnt be allowed to talk" also every story i've read of hers is about an intriguing and mystical man everyone is always talking about, dispossessed was interesting but didnt have an ending, lathe was okay, but earthsea 1 was a snoozefest
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Mar 27, 2024 13:26
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I don't think she should've gotten those 101 puppies to make a fur coat
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Mar 27, 2024 13:34
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look lady, is your middle name k. or le?
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Mar 27, 2024 13:36
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Megamissen posted:ur$ula KKK le guinn
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Al! posted:the ones who visited omelas on a business trip guys talking up omelas after a business trip the same way oil dudes talk up arab gulf states
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Mar 27, 2024 14:37
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the matter of segregation
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I keep wanting to spell it la quin
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Mar 27, 2024 18:13
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my_custom_username posted:guys talking up omelas after a business trip the same way oil dudes talk up arab gulf states Hey did you guys see the kid? What they let you see the kid?! Heh yep 
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i respect that she kind of hit a dead end with her idealism vs materialism and she remained committed to anti-capitalism when she could have easily bailed on all of that
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Crazypoops posted:I keep wanting to spell it la quin ursle guinn
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Mar 27, 2024 18:24
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Ursula von der Guinn
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I am a great and powerful wizard. My name is Jed.
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Mar 28, 2024 00:28
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Earthsea books are good which is honestly incredible since fantasy writers seem all but required to suck complete rear end at writing She also reminds me of the anarchist version of Heinlein and libertarianism, where they take the idea to its logical conclusion but just kind of shrug it off anyway. At least she writes well and makes me think something other than "wow Robert Heinlein sucks"
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genericnick posted:Ursula von der Goon
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mawarannahr posted:Ursula von der Goon
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While I think the people of Omelas are justified in that we must understand what suffering is in order to properly keep it out of society without falling into decadence (i.e. the need for a permanent revolution as people like Trotsky have advocated), I think it's wrong to do it that way because it unfairly screws over a single person. A much better model would be like Fallout's Great Khans tribe; in New Vegas they talk about how members are initiated by getting their rear end kicked. This is the lesson people need to learn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3N-1yzi4rM Anything beyond that is needless cruelty.
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ursula k. le quim would make a good username
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super sweet best pal posted:A much better model would be like Fallout's Great Khans tribe; in New Vegas they talk about how members are initiated by getting their rear end kicked. getting "jumped in" is a long held tradition by north american gangs of all sorts ranging from the crips to the hells angels to the proud boys
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Adjectivist Philosophy posted:Earthsea books are good which is honestly incredible since fantasy writers seem all but required to suck complete rear end at writing the dispossessed is a direct response to the moon is a harsh mistress so you should still be thinking about how much robert heinlein sucks
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lobster shirt posted:i have read the dispossessed and the left hand of darkness no fewer than one dozen times each I bought a set with all the Hainish books and it was extremely worth it. those two are probably the best but i also liked planet of exiles and city of illusions quite a bit
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Communist Thoughts posted:i dont know this one but i read her translation of the I Ching and it was funny how much she'd change the things she didnt like, sometimes being like "he probably didn't mean this, i changed it to x" and sometimes being like "i've excised this whole chapter because its distracting from the real message" every time lao tzu goes "peasants should know their place" or "women shouldnt be allowed to talk" i guess its only implied since chronologically dispossesed is the first in the series despite being one of the later books, but the anarchists end up winning and the technology for instant communication gets spread around and becomes the basis for intergalactic civilization
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Ur Su Lah Harle Quinn
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VomitOnLino posted:Ur Su Lah Harle Quinn Mr J... is society
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babypolis posted:I bought a set with all the Hainish books and it was extremely worth it. those two are probably the best but i also liked planet of exiles and city of illusions quite a bit I got those too. Was reading some of the later stories, but found them less interesting. Not sure I'll read the mad about China story. The earlier ones were all pretty neat in different ways. genericnick has issued a correction as of 11:47 on Apr 3, 2024 |
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Four Ways To Forgiveness revolves around a clever analogy planet where white people are enslaved by people with darker skin. really getting to the heart of things there Ursula
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John Charity Spring posted:Orsinian Tales lol I respect her dedication to writing this series but man, Orsinian history and politics are boring as poo poo. It's like War and Peace but all of the important characters and history-shaping conflicts are off screen.
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did she do the short story about the gender swapped world where women were dominant? i liked that one
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Communist Thoughts posted:did she do the short story about the gender swapped world where women were dominant? i liked that one yup, guess she did a few of those.
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Communist Thoughts posted:did she do the short story about the gender swapped world where women were dominant? i liked that one It's incredible that even now people refuse to heed her warning.
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Gynocracy? More like, gyno-crazy!
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do you mean the one where men are kept in prisons and their lives are, miserable, violent and short, and their only contact with women is for sex because they're only 10% of the population, or the one where men are cast out of the female-only villages into the wilderness to live like savages and the ones that survive to maturity live as hermits and their only contact with women is for sex because the patriarchy caused an apocalypse so now the patriarchy is taboo?
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quote:WHY DON'T WE JUST KILL THE https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/
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Communist Thoughts posted:did she do the short story about the gender swapped world where women were dominant? i liked that one
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HORSE-SLAUGHTERER posted:do you mean the one where men are kept in prisons and their lives are, miserable, violent and short, and their only contact with women is for sex because they're only 10% of the population, or the one where men are cast out of the female-only villages into the wilderness to live like savages and the ones that survive to maturity live as hermits and their only contact with women is for sex because the patriarchy caused an apocalypse so now the patriarchy is taboo? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwZhKGgmoUI
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the coercive matriarchy stuff sounds like ghosts of mars too
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There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and even a child could climb it. Where it crossed the roadway, instead of having a gate it degenerated into mere geometry, a line, an idea of boundary. But the idea was real. It was important. For seven generations there had been nothing in the world more important than that wall. Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on.  
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