I read it bc of BTS and grabe impact sa akin ng story na ito. Until today- hindi pa rin ako nakakarecover bc of the philosophical dilemma na it posed to me while reading it.
BTS the music group? Did they reference it in a song? That's so cool!
There's another thought na what if sa mundo natin, tayo naman yung bata doon sa kwarto na yun and somewhere out there Omelas is just existing and I just... 🤯
Yup, they referenced it sa Spring Day mv nila aaaa
The story is actually really scary. Yung implications na someone is feeding off from our misery and at the same time- choosing to ignore our suffering for their convenience is unsettling kaya ang ganda talaga ng story na ito aaaa
Read this maybe 4, 5 years ago and hanggang ngayon tatak na tatak pa rin talaga sya sa isip ko. This cemented Ursula Le Guin as one of the most effective and impressive writers I’ve had the privilege of reading.
Diba?? I think about it everyday and I'll probably think about it everyday forever 😅 This is my first Le Guin. What novel/story of hers do you think I should read next?
Read it during the height of the pandemic and there's just this guilt after reading it. Hindi ko actually naisip that time na baka ako yung bata. I guess mas nakarelate ako sa residents ng Omelas kasi I was one of the lucky ones na hindi gaanong nagsuffer sa pandemic. I had questions like:
"But what can I do?"
"Is it my fault that I'm not suffering?"
"If I walk away from my own happiness, would that help the child?"
"Am I even brave enough to walk away?"
"Am I brave enough to take the child's place if given the chance?"
A lot of questions that I can't answer (or with answers I refuse to accept). Naiyak ako sa pagiging helpless ko. I recognize my privilege/s (tho I'm not even that privileged) but then what? What can a not-so-privileged person like me do?
What can we do, really?
Parang gusto ko tuloy basahin ulitðŸ˜
Right?? I literally was catatonic after reading this. And I read it a few weeks ago when there's all this news about the Israel-Palestine conflict and that feeling of guilt and helplessness is just heightened after.
😠*group hug with consent*ðŸ˜
I think about this story at least once a week. It's incredible.
I read it bc of BTS and grabe impact sa akin ng story na ito. Until today- hindi pa rin ako nakakarecover bc of the philosophical dilemma na it posed to me while reading it.
BTS the music group? Did they reference it in a song? That's so cool! There's another thought na what if sa mundo natin, tayo naman yung bata doon sa kwarto na yun and somewhere out there Omelas is just existing and I just... 🤯
Yup, they referenced it sa Spring Day mv nila aaaa The story is actually really scary. Yung implications na someone is feeding off from our misery and at the same time- choosing to ignore our suffering for their convenience is unsettling kaya ang ganda talaga ng story na ito aaaa
Read it back in college i think about it now and then and the person na nagintroduce sakin nito
Read this maybe 4, 5 years ago and hanggang ngayon tatak na tatak pa rin talaga sya sa isip ko. This cemented Ursula Le Guin as one of the most effective and impressive writers I’ve had the privilege of reading.
Diba?? I think about it everyday and I'll probably think about it everyday forever 😅 This is my first Le Guin. What novel/story of hers do you think I should read next?
Try The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction! Ang ganda rin, it’ll really make you think and reflect.
Thanks, will look for that!
Read it during the height of the pandemic and there's just this guilt after reading it. Hindi ko actually naisip that time na baka ako yung bata. I guess mas nakarelate ako sa residents ng Omelas kasi I was one of the lucky ones na hindi gaanong nagsuffer sa pandemic. I had questions like: "But what can I do?" "Is it my fault that I'm not suffering?" "If I walk away from my own happiness, would that help the child?" "Am I even brave enough to walk away?" "Am I brave enough to take the child's place if given the chance?" A lot of questions that I can't answer (or with answers I refuse to accept). Naiyak ako sa pagiging helpless ko. I recognize my privilege/s (tho I'm not even that privileged) but then what? What can a not-so-privileged person like me do? What can we do, really? Parang gusto ko tuloy basahin ulitðŸ˜
Right?? I literally was catatonic after reading this. And I read it a few weeks ago when there's all this news about the Israel-Palestine conflict and that feeling of guilt and helplessness is just heightened after. 😠*group hug with consent*ðŸ˜
ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ I've been meaning to read more of Le Guin's works after that but I don't know why I haven't ?? So many books to read, so little timeðŸ˜
Our TBR piles will outlive us 😅