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"I am a hero. I taught the Omelas child to say racial slurs, which means the Omelas child is now evil, and thus deserves to suffer. Thereby transforming an evil society into a just society, which is classic heroism. You can start walking back to Omelas now"
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In a controversial move the IOC has chosen Omelas as the host for the 2029 Olympic Games
Would you walk away from Omelas?
Yes
No
I don't know
I don't know what this refers to
"The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" is a short story by Ursula K. Le Guin. You can read it (PDF) here.
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Whenever shitty parents, or decent parents in a shittier moment, tell their children that they’re lucky, that they should be grateful, that there are starving children in Africa who would love to eat the cauliflower or whatever that kid just refused: the Omelas child is brought into being. As far as I’m concerned, that’s what the Omelas child is, at heart. Not a real starving African child but the conceptual starving African child. Someone whose whole purpose is to suffer so that we can look at them, or even just imagine them, and feel ever so grateful for our own moderately shit lives.
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ursula k le guin's the ones who walk away from omelas, which dares you to imagine the story of a young witch looking for her neighbor's cat in the alps
I sure do find the endlessly-repeated omelas response stories irritating. People have been writing (and publishing!) them for decades, and nobody ever says anything new, and all of them dramatically misunderstand the story they purport to respond to. What are we doing here!
the ones who walk away from omelas: If confronted with the idea of a society without any suffering, are you able to believe in it, to dream of a world that's better than ours currently is, or has your imagination been so stifled and constrained that you require the presence of suffering for a world to feel possible? Are you willing to walk away from these artificial constraints you've built in your mind?
everyone who has ever written a response to omelas: yeah the version with the suffering is the only one I'm interested in thanks
how much more explicit did le guin need to be! she was already shouting this at the reader!!
hate that people interpret omelas as a thought experiment and not as ursula k. le guin saying, "look here now; why must you have violence? why do you accept the city more with misery? how can so many gaze upon this child rotting—let this child rot—and not imagine a world better? is this what you want to be?"
