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The ones who walk away from Omelas are just the other ones who bought into the narrator’s fiction: that for some grandiose but hollow idea of success, a great suffering must be forced upon someone.
As you like it.
The narrator tells their flexible lie and the Omelas Window advances a little more.
@NanoRaptor
Is Omelas Window related to Overton Window?
I seem to vaguely remember an episode of Star Trek with the vaguely similar plot. Possibly Strange New Worlds? 😕
@simonzerafa yeah. It was a terrific one. Captain pike and an ex I think.
@NanoRaptor I guess "The ones who burn Omelas to the fucking ground" was a less catchy title.
@datarama I figure you have to find that one yourself and go “ooooh” as you do.
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