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The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
ought to be mandatory reading for every adult in the Western world.
I've already used it as an example when talking to some people about our technology choices.
Sometimes - to be able to live in the societies we do, we have to accept that there's very little choice. But if you live in full awareness that every choice you make to participate in it, there is a cost and effect that someone else has to experience.
One is example is Social Media moderators - for us to not see the worst of humanity, they have to experience it for us and make a decision that literally can manipulate people's opinions and preferences
Except it is about colonization and social classes.
It's not about any one thing. It's a thought experiment about the moral compromises societies make, and the emotional responses people have toward such compromises.
Not very good. The writing is okay, but walking away isn't better than deluding yourself with justification. Yes I get it's all metaphor, but that doesn't make it better.
If you actually read the thing, within the literal story it never says there's actually anywhere better, or any better place could exist.
Walkaway by Cory Doctorow is a decent spiritual successor to the ideas in Omelas.
It also plays on the comforts of differently structured societies like Le Guin does in The Dispossessed.