![]() ![]() Part of Le Guin’s brilliance is that she makes her readers complicit in the construction of Omelas – allowing you to “imagin it as your own fancy bids” (278) – before revealing its fatal flaw. Most of the inhabitants stay, living with and justifying the knowledge, but a few leave, never to return. ![]() What should you do when you realize you’re living in a dystopia? The wisdom of Ursula Le Guin helped us to tackle this question in “Reading with Scientists.” We began by reading Le Guin’s classic short story “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.” Coming in at only ten pages, the plot is simple, yet powerful: a beautiful city, Omelas, seems to be perfectly happy, yet each inhabitant learns in early adolescence that the social contract keeping such happiness intact is the misery and torture of a single child.
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