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01 / belief
“I think that the ambiguity, clearly, between you and I about what Le Guin is trying to tell us about these different systems is actually extremely valuable.”
02 / belief
“I wonder then, to me, I’ve always had this opinion. I think a lot of people don’t travel well for what they want to do.”
03 / belief
“I think many people, when they travel, end up staying within very similar social groups or even only with Americans or the people they’re traveling with, and have very little interaction with people and learning about their lives in any meaningful way.”
04 / belief
“I think there’s this current here which is trying to really undermine the idea that there are these ideals in the capitalist society that are actually .”
05 / belief
“One is that he makes a comment that I think is meant to fly under the radar very early in the book, which is that he’s only talking about cis, heterosexual men.”
06 / belief
“I think Le Guin is pretty clear that she prefers the anarchist world but doesn’t shy away from the problems with it, which I think is usually the issue with utopian writing.”
07 / belief
“Our main character is a physicist who travels between the two, trying to bridge the gap. I think that’s a broad summary.”
08 / belief
“I think he’s much more pessimistic about it than I am, given how quick the gains have been in my own lifetime around moral progress.”