#omelas posting

[sam-keeper]

as someone who sees the Culture novels as unironically a beacon for imagining a communist future, gotta say I'm not super optimistic about a Consider Phlebas series produced by Fucking Amazon.

it's not dissimilar to imagining Amazon creating a Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas series in terms of how skeptical I'd be (or, maybe more plausibly, The Dispossessed or The Left Hand Of Darkness)

[s0up-witch]

Went to Mad At You Island and it turns out that it’s a utopia? Yeah. Super weird though, they have some kid locked in a basement who can never experience joy or kindness or warmth but the rest of the population is having a great time. Yeah haha it was really fucked up, I had to walk away. Or you know, take a boat haha. Cause it’s an island.

[nyorooons]

how does one live with the crushing hypocrisy of capitalism. does everyone live like this. does everyone feel this weight all the time. i bought a blanket for a stranger and my friend said i was a good person but isnt that like. what we are supposed to do. its not charity its common sense. im not looking for plaudits im genuinely asking how can we live like this

ive heard this is an austim thing bc of the all or nothing thinking + the strong sense of injustice but do u ever feel like. its not a strong sense of justice its like the very basics of justice. people died to make the very computer im typing on. how is that not sickening. we grind their bones to make our bread