The subject of the story is YOU, the reader. The story directly addresses you. It talks about how you cannot accept a pure utopia. It criticizes you. It then constructs an awful truth that must lie at the heart of this society in order to make it function so that you may accept it. The people that walk away are better than you. They are others like you except they are unable to accept this. They will not settle for this. They will find a better utopia. They do not need a dark secret in their dream society.
LeGuin's politics are very communistic. She's not writing about liberals and is much more clever and subtle than you give her credit for.
The subject of the story is YOU, the reader. The story directly addresses you. It talks about how you cannot accept a pure utopia. It criticizes you. It then constructs an awful truth that must lie at the heart of this society in order to make it function so that you may accept it. The people that walk away are better than you. They are others like you except they are unable to accept this. They will not settle for this. They will find a better utopia. They do not need a dark secret in their dream society.
LeGuin's politics are very communistic. She's not writing about liberals and is much more clever and subtle than you give her credit for.
Yeah, I'm one of the
s I'm referring to.