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Please don't read comments until you've read this. It is very short and fast to read. It is radicalizing. It is a good short story to send to your friend who needs to understand what capitalism is. LeGuin wrote this in 1973, cementing her status as Chad Supreme of Fuck Mountain. Bow before her might.

Let's discuss in the comments below.

  • Mitski [she/her,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words. - Ursula K. Le Guin

    this absolutely had to inspire snowpiercer

    • gayhobbes [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Snowpiercer's source material is more anarchist than this and it expands to a world with multiple trains still running the rails, but if there weren't a little influence, I'd be shocked.