Podcasts about ones who walk away

In our second episode on dystopias, we look at Ursula K. LeGuin's short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" and N.K. Jemisen's response "The Ones Who Stay and Fight."   We're @knowfearcast on X and Instagram, and we have a Facebook page. Our email is knowfearcast@gmail.com. If you love what we are doing, consider supporting us on Patreon. We also have merchandise available at our website knowfearcast.com. Or simply rate and review us, which is entirely free and helps other listeners find us. Theme Music by Nicholas Gasparini. Mixed and edited by Matt.

It's a bit surprising to hear a writer known for building worlds that incorporate deep historical research and elaborate technological details extol the virtues of play, but Ken Liu tells critic Rose Casey and host Sarah Wasserman that if “your idea of heaven doesn't include play, then I'm not sure it's a heaven people want to go to.” It turns out that Ken—acclaimed translator and author of the “silkpunk” epic fantasy series Dandelion Dynasty and the award-winning short story collection The Paper Menagerie—is deeply serious about play. Speaking about play as the key to technological progress, Ken and Rose discuss the importance of whimsy and the inextricable relationship between imagination and usefulness. For Ken, whose Dandelion Dynasty makes heroes of engineers instead of wizards or knights, precise machinery and innovative gadgets are born, like novels, of imagination. Ken himself might be best described as a meticulous, dedicated tinkerer—a writer playing with the materials and stories of the past to help us encounter new worlds in the present. So even if trying to explain his craft is “like asking fish how they swim,” Ken jumps in and discusses how he writes at such different lengths (hint: the longer the book, the more elephantine) and what he makes of different genre labels, from fantasy to historical fiction. We also learn why Ken is a fan of Brat Summer and still thinking about the Roman Empire. Mentioned in this episode: Ken Liu, Speaking Bones (2022), The Veiled Throne (2021), The Wall of Storms (2017), The Grace of Kings (2016), The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (2016) Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem (2014) Rose Casey, Jessica Wilkerson, Johanna Winant, “An Open Letter from Faculty at West Virginia University” (2023) Rose Casey, “In Defense of Higher Education” (2024) Ursula K. LeGuin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” (1973) Homer, The Odyssey Virgil, The Aeneid John Milton, Paradise Lost A.M. Turing, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” (1950) Brat Summer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

It's a bit surprising to hear a writer known for building worlds that incorporate deep historical research and elaborate technological details extol the virtues of play, but Ken Liu tells critic Rose Casey and host Sarah Wasserman that if “your idea of heaven doesn't include play, then I'm not sure it's a heaven people want to go to.” It turns out that Ken—acclaimed translator and author of the “silkpunk” epic fantasy series Dandelion Dynasty and the award-winning short story collection The Paper Menagerie—is deeply serious about play. Speaking about play as the key to technological progress, Ken and Rose discuss the importance of whimsy and the inextricable relationship between imagination and usefulness. For Ken, whose Dandelion Dynasty makes heroes of engineers instead of wizards or knights, precise machinery and innovative gadgets are born, like novels, of imagination. Ken himself might be best described as a meticulous, dedicated tinkerer—a writer playing with the materials and stories of the past to help us encounter new worlds in the present. So even if trying to explain his craft is “like asking fish how they swim,” Ken jumps in and discusses how he writes at such different lengths (hint: the longer the book, the more elephantine) and what he makes of different genre labels, from fantasy to historical fiction. We also learn why Ken is a fan of Brat Summer and still thinking about the Roman Empire. Mentioned in this episode: Ken Liu, Speaking Bones (2022), The Veiled Throne (2021), The Wall of Storms (2017), The Grace of Kings (2016), The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (2016) Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem (2014) Rose Casey, Jessica Wilkerson, Johanna Winant, “An Open Letter from Faculty at West Virginia University” (2023) Rose Casey, “In Defense of Higher Education” (2024) Ursula K. LeGuin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” (1973) Homer, The Odyssey Virgil, The Aeneid John Milton, Paradise Lost A.M. Turing, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” (1950) Brat Summer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

From Dragon's Den Environmental Entrepreneur to Peace Activist, Gemma Roe shares heart felt hard hitting perspective on the plight of the Palestinian people. The parable Gemma quotes is here ⁠https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas

Welcome to The Fast and the Fictitious. In each episode, students in English 2410, a Dual Enrollment Fiction course, will deep dive a story, highlight key takeaways, and relate the themes of the story to their lives. In this episode, Aiden, Oliver, and Ali G talk about “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,” by Ursula LeGuin.  The story asks how far a society is willing to go to sacrifice the rights of the individual for the good of the many. Reception is mixed from the students, but one thing they all agree on is McDonald's Sprite. We hope you enjoy.Email the show! carlilelcba@gmail.comMusic from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/bosnow/party-rock License code: 77JKG6ITA09KQZX0

Chris and Oliver continue season 2 of Vox Machina! Time to make a deal...

Craig Murphy and Jonathan Rowson join us for a dialogue on global politics and the metacrisis, using as a springboard for this conversation the essay ‘Prefixing the World: Why the polycrisis is a permacrisis, which is actually a metacrisis, which is not really a crisis at all', published by Jonathan on his Substack blog in late 2023. Craig recently participated in a panel on Crisis in Global Governance at the International Studies Association annual meeting where he engaged with Jonathan's work in his remarks, seeing certain affinities between Jonathan's claim that all global problems of the moment are connected to a single source, a single metacrisis and Craig's own insights into the importance of grappling with the possible interconnections across global problems if problem solvers are going to develop the kind of complex solidarity that is likely to be essential to any adequate response to the daunting challenges of our times. We were honoured to be able to bring these two distinguished scholars and authors together for a far-reaching and deeply meaningful conversation. Craig Murphy is Betty Freyhof Johnson '44 Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Wellesley College and is a leading light in the fields of international relations and political science, known particularly for his pioneering research on global governance. Jonathan Rowson is Co-founder and Chief Executive of Perspectiva, which is a collective of scholars, artists and activists who produce and publish outputs concerned with understanding the relationship between systems, souls and society in theory and practice. He was previously Director of the Social Brain Centre at the RSA where he authored a range of influential research reports on behaviour change, climate change and spirituality, and curated and chaired a range of related events. Craig's official website profile can be found here: https://www1.wellesley.edu/politicalscience/faculty/murphy Jonathan's profile can be found on the Perspectiva website: https://systems-souls-society.com/origin/people/ He tweets @Jonathan_Rowson His essays can also be read at Substack: https://substack.com/@jonathanrowson We discussed: Ursula Le Guin, ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas', 1973: https://shsdavisapes.pbworks.com/f/Omelas.pdf Geoff Mann, ‘It Was Not Supposed to End This Way', August 2019: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/geoff-mann-it-was-not-supposed-end-way/ See our podcast conversation Geoff Mann here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFmOtlbJPts Craig Murphy, ‘Leadership, Global Governance, and Peace', November 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ_nXvzcOEE Craig Murphy, ‘Engineering Rules', 2024: https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/11653/engineering-rules#:~:text=of%20the%20internet.-,In%20Engineering%20Rules%2C%20JoAnne%20Yates%20and%20Craig%20N.,on%20all%20of%20our%20lives. Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry of the Future: https://www.orbitbooks.net/orbit-excerpts/the-ministry-for-the-future/ Jonathan Rowson, ‘Prefixing the World,' September 2023: https://perspecteeva.substack.com/p/prefixing-the-world Jonathan Rowson, ‘Tasting the Pickle: ten flavours of meta-crisis and the appetite for a new civilisation', February 2021: https://systems-souls-society.com/tasting-the-pickle-ten-flavours-of-meta-crisis-and-the-appetite-for-a-new-civilisation/ Adam Tooze, ‘Welcome to the world of the polycrisis', Financial Times, 28 October 2022: https://www.ft.com/content/498398e7-11b1-494b-9cd3-6d669dc3de33

Over five years ago, we test drove this thing. It's rough, but we hope you'll enjoy it! For various reasons, we had to push back our planned schedule. This is How You Lose the Time War will drop in August, followed by A Fire Upon the Deep in September.

Content Warning: Like the story this game is based off of, this game will feature heavy themes of child abuse. Listener discretion is advised.The travelers to Omelas have started to realize the nature of the famed city, and that their plans to take in its prosperity are not so simple. What depths, what limits, will they have to go to to Walk Away from Omelas on top?This one shot is heavily based on the Hugo Award winning short story The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin. It is advised if you're unfamiliar with the story to read it first. It is fairly brief. While we are sure it might be possible to find a copy of it online, it is also available in ebook and book form, with links from the official website for Le Guin, and from your local library. The story was collected in The Wind's Twelve Quarters.Ethan - GMBen - Mahara (They/Them), Spider, Opportunistic Graverobber. They seek to establish an estate in the countryside.Dan - Toron (He/Him), Merchant, (former) Oppressed Laborer. They seek to buy their brother's freedom from prison.

Content Warning: Like the story this game is based off of, this game will feature heavy themes of child abuse. Listener discretion is advised.Two people are traveling to Omelas, thinking they will be able to harness the power and wealth of Omelas. However, Omelas' prosperity is due to the immense suffering of a child. The world will not bring about the desires of our protagonists, but maybe this city and this child can...This one shot is heavily based on the Hugo Award winning short story The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin. It is advised if you're unfamiliar with the story to read it first. It is fairly brief. While we are sure it might be possible to find a copy of it online, it is also available in ebook and book form, with links from the official website for Le Guin, and from your local library. The story was collected in The Wind's Twelve Quarters.Ethan - GMBen - Mahara (They/Them), Spider, Opportunistic Graverobber. They seek to establish an estate in the countryside.Dan - Toron (He/Him), Merchant, (former) Oppressed Laborer. They seek to buy their brother's freedom from prison.

[REWRITE] »The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas«/»The Word for World Is Forest«/»Little Fuzz«/»Fuzzy Nation«

[REWRITE] »The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas«/»The Word for World Is Forest«/»Little Fuzz«/»Fuzzy Nation«

In memory of Aaron Bushnell

In this 1973 short work from Ursula K. L Guin, we are forced to consider our own morality and the choices we make in order to enjoy our day to day lives...

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin (1973) VS The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster (1909)

Things get philosophical as the fellas are compelled to cover the trolley problem, vegetarianism, and ethical consumption under capitalism, all because Geordie picked the Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. LeGuin. He also spends an unforgivable amount of time talking about his latest weird interest at the start, but he has since been suitably punished. The hotest debate in the whole episode though is right in the title: is this (just) fantasy.

Wild will be taking a pause for a few weeks over the summer period and we'll be running a bunch of my favourite episodes that you might have missed along the way.I've chosen this chat with poet Bayo Akomalafe because it is DENSE with advice for complex times, times in which humanity struggles to encapsulate things with tidy answers. Bayo riffs in this ep with the most uplifting advice for “relaxing into our entanglement with the world” and joining the chaos. Forever timely. Happy Christmas slash school holidays slash summer break if you're in Australia, etc.SHOW NOTES You can connect with Bayo via his website and Twitter Here is the poem I ask Bayo to read out And here is the essay What Climate Collapse Asks of Us He references Ursula K Le Guin's book The Ones Who Walk Away from OmelasIf you need to know a bit more about me… head to my "about" pageFor more such conversations subscribe to my Substack newsletter, it's where I interact the most!Get your copy of my book, This One Wild and Precious LifeLet's connect on Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of the Project Narrative Podcast, Jim Phelan and Lindsay Holmgren discuss Ursula Le Guin's 1973 short story, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.” Lindsay Holmgren is an Associate Professor in the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University, where she also directs the Laidley Centre for Business Ethics and Equity. Holmgren… Continue reading Episode 26: Jim Phelan & Lindsay Holmgren — Ursula Le Guin's “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”

A miserable child and a summer festival are at the heart of the short work of philosophical fiction first published by Ursula Le Guin in 1973. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas was sparked by "forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards" was the answer given by the author when asked where she got the idea from. Matthew Sweet is joined by guests including the authors Una McCormack, Naomi Alderman, Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson and Kevan Manwaring, and political philosopher Sophie Scott-Brown. They discuss Le Guin's thought experiments and writing career and also the short story called The Ones Who Stayed and Fought which NK Jemisin wrote in response to Le Guin's vision of Omelas. Producer: Luke Mulhall Naomi Alderman's latest novel The Future is out now Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson publishes The Principle of Moments in January 2024 Dr Sophie Scott-Brown is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia and is the author of The Histories of Raphael Samuel - A Portrait of A People's Historian Dr Kevan Manwaring is Programme Leader for MA Creative Writing (online) and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Arts University Bournemouth Dr Una McCormack's books include Star Trek: Picard novel The Last Best Hope You can find many other discussions about science fiction and imagining the future in collections on the Free Thinking programme website including episodes about Philip K Dick, John Rawls, Octavia Butler, Afro-futurism, AI and creativity

Content Warning: Gun ViolenceWho walked away from Omelas? Reginald apparently! Luckily Dom is joined by YouTuber Suede to discuss LeGuin's short story, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.This podcast, like Dom's videos, sometimes touches on the foul language, violence, assaults, and murders in the books we read. Treat it like a TV-14 show.For the full episode with video, and bonus content, check out Dom's Patreon:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DomSmithWhere to find Suede:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@OfficialSuedeTwitter: @SuedeBladePatreon: https://www.patreon.com/SuedeWhere to find Dom:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Dominic-NobleWebsite: https://www.dominic-noble.com/Second channel: https://www.youtube.com/@domnobletoo8238Twitter: @Dominic_Noble Instagram: @dominic_nobleMerch:https://www.teespring.com/stores/domi...For information about sponsoring a video, convention appearances and similar business inquiries please contact my representation at dominicnoble@viralnationtalent.comEditor:Sophia Ricciardiwww.sophiakricci.com Music:“European Waltz” performed by Il NeigeYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DJilneige

Artemis goes down into Ethics in an attempt to find out what's really going on with the town, and is deeply disturbed by what she uncovers.TRANSCRIPT: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Oz_0GhhE383-BL45HAVWzhMq1IyqWtTutXfd22D7kSs/edit?usp=sharingArtemis Flynn was voiced by Liz Dokukina. Grace Jacobs was voiced by Subhi Loganathan. Alice Jacobs was voiced by L. M. Clohessy. Elaine Carter was voiced by Paige Adams. Noah Morley was voiced by Sarah Griffin. Dr Clayton was voiced by David Ault. Alex Crane was voiced by Eli Labat-Angstadt. Addi Reay-Armstrong was voiced by Delilah Tahiri. Rory Nos was voiced by Evan Gwen Davies. This episode was written and produced by C. L. Hendry and edited by Cai Gwilym Pritchard. Theme by Mick Zijdel.Follow us @EthicsTownPod for updates.Content Warnings:DeceitDistressed childDiscussions of death and loss of a parentCrying Unreality SFX:Radio staticThis episode changes very quickly between different setting atmosphere designs. If you're sensitive to these sorts of audio changes we would suggest listening without headphones

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Explore the dystopian city of Omelas in this short story by American author Ursula K LeGuin

Amberlee, Sarah, and Kim return to La Guin with discussions about what they would truly do in this situation and what books smell like.

Well, we had a few technical issues but we're here with the beginning of Hebrews 6 and the continuation of the third warning to the Hebrew Christians. Today we'll talk about what can happen if we become dull towards God's Word, 6 fundamental beliefs we all need to hold onto and whether we can really walk away from God. Joy gets cut off at the end, but we promise you just miss PB saying his usual "good-bye" stuff. Thanks for sticking with us in our imperfections!! Let's do lunch. Be sure to Subscribe to our YouTube channel and/or Follow our podcast. Share this episode with someone so you can "do lunch" together. Leave us a question or comment. Send us a question: lunchwithpbandj@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram so you know when new episodes release: @lunchwithpbandj_podcast

This week's guest will “shock you into noticing the world differently.” The glorious Bayo Akomolafe is a Nigerian-born Yoruba poet, author and teacher at universities and institutions across the UK, the US, Canada and India. He has also won the 2021 New Thought Walden Award which honours empowering spiritual ideas and philosophies that change lives and make our planet a better place. Bayo uses “trickster philosophy” and intense metaphors to present truly wild – but intuitively sound - ways to cope with the complex, existential challenges that we face. This is a madly challenging conversation and we touch on relaxing into our entanglement with the world, and how to be a fugitive. Bayo invites us to abandon "solutionism" and to ask different questions: What is climate collapse asking of us? What if the way we're responding to the crisis is part of the crisis? What if the “answer” is to join the chaos and give in to nature? Bayo is a sage for our times and I truly encourage everyone to experience his wild mind and words…and to learn how to become a fugitive!You can connect with Bayo via his website and Twitter Here is the poem I ask Bayo to read out And here is the essay What Climate Collapse Asks of Us He references Ursula K Le Guin's book The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas If you need to know a bit more about me… head to my "about" pageSubscribe to my Substack newsletter for more such conversations Get your copy of my book, This One Wild and Precious Life Let's connect on Instagram! It's where I interact the most Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join the conversation as we discuss The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin!

The Golden Enclaves is the third installment in The Scholomance trilogy, written by Naomi Novik and narrated by Anisha Dadia. Review & discussion with Lisa, Mark, and Scott. The Golden Enclaves [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] A Deadly Education [Overdrive/Libby]  / [Audible] / [Libro.fm] / [Episode 90] The Last Graduate [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 125] ”The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” [Overdrive/Libby] Babel [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 169] The Mountain in the Sea [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 172]  Ogres  [Audible] / [Episode 170] Gideon the Ninth [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]   Stardust [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 6] The Magicians [Netflix ] Wednesday [Netflix ]

Married Trekkie couple, Joe & Nicole get strange with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds! The love story in question this episode is the romance between Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and the Majalan minister, Alora (Lindy Booth) from the 6th episode of season 1, "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach." ***Special shout out to Steve Combs for the music featured and remixed throughout this episode. Be sure to subscribe to this podcast and follow us over on Twitter @DSLovePod! References: "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" - Ursula Le Guin Deep Space Love's Romance Rating Scale (from toxic to red hot): Red Alert Yellow Alert Fascinating Fully Functional Resistance is Futile

Featured Stories - Amon Reports from Halfhill, And Velmic drops some powerful news about Silvermoon on Tosh Sponsors: Nesingwary Safari, Red Crane Society, Keelen's Trustworthy Tailoring Recorded live from an estate in Silvermoon. Reach us on Twitter @HalfhillReport, @PTaliep, @Toshmifune1, by email at halfhillreport@yahoo.com or on in the Discord channel. Find Toshmifune and Professor Taliep on the Wyrmrest Accord server! Find branded Halfhill Report and Halfhill Ag Alumni Merchandise at https://www.zazzle.com/store/halfhill_report Show Credits and Acknowledgements Opening Music and bumpers: China Town by Audiobbinger Productions http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Audiobinger/Audiobinger_-_Singles_1776/China_Town_1874 Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0: Pandaren Inn Music - Mists Of Pandaria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9l7Zm3Mo8Q Website Banner Art by  Sandra Schnell https://sanii.artstation.com   Logo Art by Toshmifune based on photo by imagesthai.com from Pexels https://www.pexels.com/photo/landscape-photography-of-cliff-with-sea-of-clouds-during-golden-hour-733172/  All place names, character names and music from World of Warcraft used in the Halfhill Report are the exclusive property of Blizzard Entertainment.  World of Warcraft is a trademark or registered trademark of Blizzard Entertainment Inc in the US and other countries. No copyright or trademark infringement is intended by The Halfhill Report.

On this episode, Kelby and Kawasaki and I talk: Generational inheritance, the pronunciation of “Saiyan,” too many Dragon Balls, the power of purple, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Graceland, the Age of Air, competition is good, cool abortions, is Dragon Ball mediocre?, Super Hero recap, raising the stakes, lard-ass Gotenks, short CEOs, post-credits spoilers, Goku's voice, entomology, American storytelling, infinite games, Harry Potter defense, coming out of retirement, Piccolo is the hero, Dragon Ball Live, turning up, You-Gi-Oh conspiracy, Tokyo Vice, fight discussion, the Cell Max fight, and some other bullshit.

In this debut episode of our newest series on science fiction and futurism, the gang is joined by editor at Blood Knife Magazine and host of the Podside Picnic podcast, Kurt Schiller (@mechanicalkurt), for a discussion about Ursula K. Le Guin's rather short but famous 1973 story, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas. Is it about exploitation under capitalism? Imperialism? That utopia is not possible or cannot exist without sacrifice and suffering, but only for a few? In the decades since its publication, writers, critics, teachers, and students have grappled over the morality of this succinct but perfectly vague story. Kurt helps us parse through its meaning as well as response stories, and we discuss his own piece on "Omelas" over at Blood Knife Mag. Tune in for this first episode of a series about what may have been and what can still be. The story Kurt's article at Blood Knife Mag: Omelas, Je T'Aime Check out more at Blood Knife Mag and Kurt's podcast: https://www.patreon.com/bloodknife https://www.patreon.com/PodsidePicnic Follow us on Twitter: @ELCpod Follow us on IG: everybodylovescommunism Sign up as a supporter at fans.fm/everybodylovescommunism or Patreon.com/everybodylovescommunism to unlock bonus content! Like what you heard? Be sure to give us a 5 Star Rating on Apple Podcasts!

Connor and John discuss the life, works, and philosophy of American science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin

We're whatever you need to imagine this week as we discuss a classic sci-fi story and the Strange New Worlds episode it inspired: Ursula K. LeGuin's Hugo Award-winning short story "The One Who Walk Away From Omelas" and "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach"!If imagining an orgy helps you, go ahead.Give us a review on iTunes!https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/backtrekking/id1464298918Join the Just Enough Trope Discord!https://discord.gg/8xA2UJE4

11 a.m. Sermon by Dr. B.J. Hutto at Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church on Sunday, July 24, 2022.

In which we coin the verb "Gorned" and the warcrimes airhorn is repurposed to be a bodyswap airhorn. Are anxiety dreams part of the human genome?WHO STABBED ORTEGAS WITH A LIRPA, WE DEMAND THIS INFORMATION.Also, what would happen if Jude and Justen freaky fridayed?We also talk about the other episode, which feels like it's an uncredited adaptation of "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. LeGuin."Investigate with your tricorder, not with your finger" is very good advice though. Connect with the show at @babylonpodjectHelp us keep the lights on via our Patreon!Justen can be found at @justenwritesAna can be found at @The_Mianaai, and also made our show art.Both Ana and Justen can also be found on The Compleat Discography, a Discworld re-read podcast.Jude Vais can be found at @eremiticjude. His other work can be found at Athrabeth - a Tolkien Podcast and at Garbage of the Five Rings.Music attribution: Space War by IdanKupferberg from PixabayThis show is edited and produced by Aaron Olson, who can be found at @urizenxvii

Sarah Gailey, author of the upcoming book Just Like Home, joins us to talk about one of the most famous American short stories of all time: Shirley Jackson's 1948 classic, The Lottery.  Jackie reveals her long, sordid history with technology.  Rachel reads a book review from an alternate reality.  Theo discusses an affordable delicacy.  Topics include: old houses, cottagecore, rollerblading accidents, park raters, trusting your editor, killing off Chuck, mom texts, Muppet Treasure Island, cicada pizza, and cricket flour.Media mentioned: Saint Death's Daughter by CSE Cooney, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst, Let Me Hear You Whisper by Paul Zindel, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula LeGuin, The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins, and Jordan Peele's Us.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

A lifetime spent reading, writing and reflecting teaches you a lot. Nilanjana Roy joins Amit Varma in episode 284 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about books, feminism, family, memory and the state of the world.  Also check out:1. Nilanjana Roy on Twitter, Instagram, Amazon, Financial Times, Business Standard and her own website. 2. The Girl Who Ate Books: Adventures in Reading -- Nilanjana Roy. 3. The Wildings -- Nilanjana Roy. 4. The Hundred Names of Darkness -- Nilanjana Roy. 5. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen that discuss reading and writing with Sara Rai, Amitava Kumar, VK Karthika, Sugata Srinivasaraju, Mrinal Pande, Sonia Faleiro, Vivek Tejuja, Samanth Subramanian, Annie Zaidi and Prem Panicker. 6.  Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen on the creator ecosystem with Roshan Abbas, Varun Duggirala, Neelesh Misra, Snehal Pradhan, Chuck Gopal, Nishant Jain, Deepak Shenoy and Abhijit Bhaduri. 7. A Meditation on Form -- Amit Varma. 8. Why Are My Episodes so Long? -- Amit Varma. 9. The Prem Panicker Files -- Episode 217 of The Seen and the Unseen. 10. Jonathan Haidt on Amazon. 11. Where Have All the Leaders Gone? -- Amit Varma. 12. The Ranga-Billa Case. 13. Sarojini Naidu on Amazon. 14. The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi. 15. The Mahatma and the Poet — The letters between Gandhi and Tagore, compiled by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya. 16. Amitava Kumar Finds the Breath of Life -- Episode 265 of The Seen and the Unseen. 17. Margaret Mascarenhas on Amazon. 18. The Web We Have to Save -- Hossein Derakhshan. 19. The Country Without a Post Office -- Agha Shahid Ali. 20. Wanting — Luke Burgis. 21. René Girard on Amazon and Wikipedia. 22. The Silence of Scheherazade -- Defne Suman. 23. Silver -- Walter de la Mare. 24. Lessons from an Ankhon Dekhi Prime Minister — Amit Varma. 25. George Saunders and Barack Obama on Amazon. 26. A life in 5,000 books -- Nilanjana Roy. 27. Surender Mohan Pathak, Ibne Safi and Gabriel Garcia Marquez on Amazon.  28. The Power Broker — Robert Caro. 29. The Death and Life of Great American Cities — Jane Jacobs. 30. JRR Tolkien, Ursula Le Guin and Terry Pratchett on Amazon. 31. Forget reading Thomas Piketty. Try a bit of Terry Pratchett -- Robert Shrimsley. 32. Fifty Shades of Grey -- EL James. 33. Ankur Warikoo, Aanchal Malhotra, Manu Pillai and Ira Mukhoty on Amazon. 34. Mahashweta Devi and Naiyer Masud on Amazon. 35. The former homes of Hurree Babu and Putu the Cat. 36. The Life and Times of Abhinandan Sekhri -- Episode 254 of The Seen and the Unseen. 37. Om Namah Volume -- Amit Varma. 38. Salman's Sea of Stories -- Salman Rushdie's Substack newsletter. 39. What Is It Like to Be a Bat? — Thomas Nagel. 40. The Hidden Life of Trees -- Peter Wohlleben. 41. An Immense World -- Ed Yong. 42. The Twitter thread by Sergej Sumlenny that Nilanjana mentioned. 43. The Inheritance of Loss -- Kiran Desai. 44. The Grapes of Wrath -- John Steinbeck. 45. Pather Panchali --  Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay. 46. Gora -- Rabindranath Tagore. 47. William Shakespeare, Kalidasa, Geoffrey Chaucer and Krishna Sobti on Amazon. 48. The Cult of Authenticity -- Vikram Chandra. 49. Meenakshi Mukherjee: The Death of a Critic -- Nilanjana Roy. 50. Field Notes from a Waterborne Land: Bengal Beyond the Bhadralok -- Parimal Bhattacharya. 51. Patriots, Poets and Prisoners: Selections from Ramananda Chatterjee's The Modern Review, 1907-1947 -- Edited by Anikendra Sen, Devangshu Datta and Nilanjana Rao. 52. The City Inside -- Samit Basu. 53. Understanding India Through Its Languages -- Episode 232 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Peggy Mohan). 54. Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages — Peggy Mohan. 55. The Life and Times of Mrinal Pande -- Episode 263 of The Seen and the Unseen. 56. Manjula Padmanathan on Amazon. 57. The Life and Letters of Raja Rammohun Roy. 58. If No One Ever Marries Me -- Lawrence Alma-Tadema. 59. If No One Ever Marries Me -- Natalie Merchant. 60. Kavitha Rao and Our Lady Doctors -- Episode 235 of The Seen and the Unseen. 61. Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India's First Women in Medicine — Kavitha Rao. 62. The Memoirs of Dr Haimabati Sen — Haimabati Sen (translated by Tapan Raychoudhuri). 63. Women at Work — Episode 132 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Namita Bhandare). 64. The Loneliness of the Indian Woman -- Episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shrayana Bhattacharya). 65. Films, Feminism, Paromita — Episode 155 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Paromita Vohra). 66. The Kavita Krishnan Files — Episode 228 of The Seen and the Unseen. 67. Manjima Bhattacharjya: The Making of a Feminist -- Episode 280 of The Seen and the Unseen. 68. I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Dĕd -- Translated by Ranjit Hoskote. 69. Lal Ded's poem on wrestling with a tiger. 70. Anarchy is a likelier future for the west than tyranny -- Janan Ganesh. 71. The Better Angels of Our Nature -- Steven Pinker. 72. The Ferment of Our Founders -- Episode 272 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Kapila). 73. Rukmini Sees India's Multitudes — Episode 261 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rukmini S). 74. A Life in Indian Politics -- Episode 149 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Jayaprakash Narayan). 75. The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism — Episode 139 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul). 76. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India — Akshaya Mukul. 77. Manohar Malgonkar, Mulk Raj Anand and Kamala Das on Amazon. 78. Kanthapura -- Raja Rao. 79. India's Greatest Civil Servant -- Episode 167 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Narayani Basu, on VP Menon). 80. Private Truths, Public Lies — Timur Kuran. 81. Alice Munro on Amazon. 82. The Bear Came Over the Mountain -- Amit Varma's favourite Alice Munro story. 83. The Median Voter Theorem. 84. The Ice Cream Vendors. 85. Mohammad Zubair's Twitter thread on the Dharam Sansad. 86. The Will to Change -- Bell Hooks. 87. Paul Holdengraber, Maria Popova, Rana Safvi and Rabih Alameddine on Twitter. 88. The hounding of author Kate Clanchy has been a witch-hunt without mercy -- Sonia Sodha. 89. Democrats have stopped listening to America's voters -- Edward Luce. 90. From Cairo to Delhi With Max Rodenbeck -- Episode 281 of The Seen and the Unseen. 91. The Indianness of Indian Food — Episode 95 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vikram Doctor). 92. GN Devy. 93. The Art of Translation -- Episode 168 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Arunava Sinha). 94. Alipura -- Gyan Chaturvedi (translated by Salil Yusufji). 95. Tomb of Sand -- Geetanjali Shree (translated by Daisy Rockwell). 96. Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover: The Many Lives of Agyeya -- Akshaya Mukul. 97. Ashapurna Devi, Agyeya, Saadat Hasan Manto, Ismat Chugtai, Qurratulain Hyder, Amrita Pritam and Girish Karnad on Amazon. 98. The Adventures of Dennis -- Viktor Dragunsky. 99. Toni Morrison on Amazon. 100. Haroun and the Sea of Stories -- Salman Rushdie. 101. The Penguin Book Of Indian Poets -- Edited by Jeet Thayil. 102. These My Words: The Penguin Book of Indian Poetry -- Edited by Eunice de Souza and Melanie Silgardo. 103. The Autobiography of a Goddess -- Andal (translated by Priya Sarrukai Chabria and Ravi Shankar). 104. Ghachar Ghochar — Vivek Shanbhag (translated by Srinath Perur). 105. Amit Varma talks about Ghachar Ghochar in episode 13 of The Book Club on Storytel. 106. River of Fire -- Qurratulain Hyder. 107. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas -- Ursula K Le Guin. 108. The Left Hand of Darkness -- Ursula K Le Guin. 109. Mother of 1084 -- Mahashweta Devi. 110. Jejuri -- Arun Kolatkar. 111. The Collected Essays of AK Ramanujan -- Edited by Vinay Dharwadker. 112. The Collected Poems of AK Ramanujan. 113. Folktales From India -- Edited by AK Ramanujan. 114. The Interior Landscape: Classical Tamil Love Poems -- Edited and translated by AK Ramanujan. 115. The Essential Kabir -- Translated by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra. 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Rob was very excited to record today's podcast. He had something he wanted to share.Rob really enjoyed the latest episode of 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' - calling it the best, single episode of Star Trek since 2005. That being said and Rob being who he is, he did have one bone to pick with the show ...The story behind the episode appeared to be a direct copy of a short story by legendary sci-fi author, Ursula K. LeGuin. That story ("The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas")is comparable to Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" (not the juggling troupe) - but the similarities between the SNW episode and LeGuin's story (from the late 70s) are far more than just "comparable." The similarities between the SNW episode and LeGuin's story are so close, that it's shocking that LeGuin isn't, at the very least, acknowledged at all in the credits of the episode. Some articles cite SNW's reputation for "deep-cut pop culture references" but Rob and I both feel these cuts are less like a referential nod and more like cribbing plot points and other details in order to take less time to write an episode treatment.As always, I'll be writing more about all this on the ROADTRIPPIN' blog later today (and will probably post it this evening). You can check it out on our website: https://postgeeksingularity.com/roadtrippin-with-rmb/And remember, you can always send us a letter. Just click on the "Contact Us" button in the main navigation of our website at postgeeksingularity.com and you'll be able to send us a message to let us know how we're doing and what's on your mind.We look forward to hearing from you.I invite you to listen in on my weekday conversations with my friend and business partner, Robert Meyer Burnett, as we talk about the things we love: great movies, inspiring television programming, nostalgic genre entertainment, and pop culture.This episode was recorded on June 9, 2022.(**NOTE: Due to some audio difficulties while we were recording, Rob and I re-cut the second half of the podcast when he returned home after work and he was able to jump on a Zoom call with me from the Robservatory. You can hear a tremendous difference in the audio quality as a result. We'll continue to work on improving the audio quality of these podcasts - although I doubt we'll get things to work quite so well from Rob's car while he's driving as they do when he's behind the mic in the Robservatory.)

Imagine a society of unlimited abundance, profound science, and beautiful art. A society where everyone is thriving, beautiful, and happy. Now imagine there is a dark, twisted secret at the heart of this utopia that makes it all work. Would it still be worth it?   Today we're talking about Ursula K. LeGuin's story The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas. A thought experiment that tests the limits of utilitarianism: The moral framework that strives to maximize the happiness of the greatest number of people. This is the first in a three part series on utilitarianism. This week, we'll focus a key critique of the philosophy, next week we'll dive into J.S Mill's original essay on the topic, and the week after we'll discuss the modern Princeton utilitarian: Peter Singer.  

Nate and James discuss utilitarianism, capitalism, and joy in the context of Le Guin's influential story. Part 1 of a series on the Omelas-verse. Read it hereEmail us at unknownreasonspodcast@gmail.com and follow us on Instagram at @unknownreasonspodMusic: Scott Buckley "Signal to Noise"

On today's episode I'm joined, once again, by the dope af Aaron Rabinowitz. Aaron is a lecturer on philosophy at Rutgers University, host of the Embrace the Void and Philosophers in Space podcasts, and currently working on his PhD in Education. We talk about luck and how circumstances outside our control can, and arguably should, influence our moral judgments. Check it out!  www.patreon.com/ultravioiletpod www.ultravioletpod.com/moralluck   Aaron's Links Twitter: https://twitter.com/ETVPod Website: https://voidpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoid Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/ The Skeptic Magazine: https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2021/09/we-can-understand-the-effect-of-privilege-better-when-we-consider-it-in-terms-of-moral-luck/   Content & Creators Discusses in this Episode Thomas Nagel - Mortal Questions: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/mortal-questions/F0D076D52E53EB398DFBEF8E68FF15D1 Bernard Williams – Moral Luck: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/moral-luck/84945A1EB61E73D5676E22B6F520B3C0 Sean Carroll: https://twitter.com/seanmcarroll Moral Luck Chart: https://twitter.com/ETVPod/status/1470778837466337295/photo/1 The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92625.The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas Star Trek Voyager: “Repentance”: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Repentance_(episode) Babylon 5: “Passing Through Gethsemane”: https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Passing_Through_Gethsemane The Goat : https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000374/ Brain tumor causes uncontrollable pedophilia: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2943-brain-tumour-causes-uncontrollable-paedophilia/

We're back with February's short story book club, and my guest is a voice you might recognize from our Song of Achilles episode, Deedi Brown! Deedi and I chat about this sci-fi classic, its reinterpretations, how it's changed context in recent years for us, and so much more. Deedi even shares a bit about her hot tea obsession and her lavish smart mug (seriously, it sounds like the most unnecessary necessity in the world). There are spoilers for this one, so please read first! It's only 4 pages guys, come on. The Story: http://shsdavisapes.pbworks.com/f/Omelas.pdf Follow Deedi on instagram @deedireads Follow the podcast on instagram and twitter @yfbpodcast

Is it possible to ever be truly happy? What if your happiness rests on a backbone of degradation and exploitation? Is it right to sacrifice the few for the many? What should be done about injustice in the world? All of these questions and more are contemplated in Ursula Le Guin's amazing short story "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas."  Read the story here: https://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/emily.klotz/engl1302-6/readings/the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas-ursula-le-guin/view Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/reflectinghistory Reflecting History on Twitter: @reflectinghist If you like the podcast and have 30 seconds to spare, consider leaving a review on iTunes/Apple Podcasts...It helps! Try the audio course: Why do 'good' people support evil leaders? What allure does Fascism hold that enables it to garner popular support? And what lessons can history teach us about today?   My audio course 'A Beginners Guide to Understanding & Resisting Fascism: Nazi Germany and the Battle for the Human Heart' explores these massive questions through the lens of Nazi Germany and the ordinary people who lived, loved, collaborated and even resisted during those times.   Through exploring the past, I hope to unlock lessons that all learners on the course can apply to the present day - from why fascism attracts people to how it can be resisted. I'm donating 20% of the proceeds to Givewell's Maximum Impact Fund, and the course also comes with a 100% money back guarantee. Check it out at https://avid.fm/reflectinghistory  

We're back with a foundational text from the legendary Ursula K. Le Guin.  This is one of the most important short stories in the history of scifi, and we talk utopia, anarchism, and waking up to the suffering our world is built on. We were firing on all cylinders for this one.Follow the show @SwordsNSocPodEmail us at SwordsAndSocialismPod@protonmail.comDarius: @Himbo_AnarchistKetho: @StupidPuma69 

Trev Downey reads The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K Le Guin and then discusses it with Neil Poole.

This week we ask a very important question: what genre is A Wrinkle in Time? Science fiction, fantasy, or something else? Erin lays out some evidence with an exploration of the different alien creatures we meet and planets we visit, and the concept of a tesseract as seen in real-life theoretical physics and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Then Rhonda dives into what exactly defines these genres anyway. We also look at Wrinkle through the lens of the work of other speculative fiction authors Ursula K. Le Guin and N. K. Jemisin, and how the ideas of utopia, dystopia, autonomy, and privilege are explored in this work for children. Our favorite scholarly source, the A Wrinkle in Time Fandom wiki. An exploration of the planets seen in the 2018 film adaptation. The Tesseract as used in Wrinkle. What genre is A Wrinkle in Time? Let's discuss. Free PDF of "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula Le Guin, and Google Books preview of "The Ones Who Stay and Fight" by N. K. Jemisin. Rhonda's essay on the two stories. We are on Twitter and Instagram, where we post memes, book recommendations, and nonsense with little to no consistency. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pop-dna-podcast/message

On this week's episode, we have a two-hour special to answer questions sent in by our darling listeners! Thank you to everyone who has been with us through the last four years! The Great Hiatus begins now, but we will return for at least one more episode next year! Get hype!   What We're Into Lately My Name  Beyond Evil Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers All the Feels by Olivia Dade Frankenstein by Mary Shelley And This, Your Living Kiss by opal_bullets The Courtier's Love Affair (and Other Stories) by tridenture Harlots Bridgerton  The Living and the Dead  Macey's NaNoWriMo Project: The Resurrection Chalice In the Realms of Gold by Victoria Goddard Sword Dance trilogy by AJ Demas Plum Duff by Victoria Goddard Alex's NaNoWriMo Project: Some by Virtue Fall   Other Stuff We've Mentioned Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade Supernatural Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty Merlin A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold Unmasked by the Marquess by Cat Sebastian Silk and Steel Our Opinions Are Correct Tales from the Trunk Fated Mates Heaving Bosoms Smart Bitches, Trashy Books Fansplaining The Fantasy Inn Breaking the Glass Slipper Overinvested Campaign Skyjacks Tor.com The Rec Center Pinboard Dragon Age: Inquisition Fantasia in D Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Allegro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart BtS episode 6 “Cross Your Stars and Hope to Bi” BtS Special Episode Strange Horizons Miss Congeniality BtS episode 80 “Extravaganza” My Hero Academia Yesterday Upon the Stair by PitViperOfDoom BtS episode 98 “[SPOOKY NOISES]” “Bakugou and Todoroki's Foolproof 5-Step Plan to Fuck with Mineta Minoru” by Anubis_2701 Naruto The Witcher (video game) The Witcher (TV) Person of Interest (2011) The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin The Ones Who Stay And Fight by N.K. Jemisin Singing my Sister Down by Margo Lanagan The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Yuri!!! in Space series by Fahye Choir of Lies by Alexandra Rowland A Sword On Two Fingers by Freya Marske (unpublished) Viable Paradise (writers' workshop) Sam Hawke (Australian author) Jenn Lyons (Author) E. Jade Lomax (Author) The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins Welcome to Night Vale podcast The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard astolat Macey's Frozen Meat Salesman Segment Macey's misspent youth Sutton cottage (from A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske) Stars in the marsh (from A Choir of Lies by Alexandra Rowland)   Transcription The transcript of this episode is available here. We'd like to take this moment to give an extra-special thank you to our team of scribes, who are amazing and meticulous and dedicated and extremely hard-working. Scribes, thank you, thank you, thank you. You're all amazing.

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In this episode, Kariba discusses two short stories she recently read: “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” and “2BR02B”

A coup le doods discuss The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin, The Balloon by Donald Barthelme, and The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains: A Tale of Travel and Darkness with Pictures of All Kinds by Neil Gaiman.

In the second part of our first episode, Reuben makes us read noted English wanker Will Self, Rio elevates things a little with the Grande Dame of Science Fiction, Ursula K LeGuin, then Matt sickens everyone with a notorious Chuck Palahniuk short story.Will Self's short story, "Prometheus" is featured in his collection, Liver.You can read LeGuin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" here.Chuck Palahniuk's "Guts" can be found here or in his collection, Haunted.

In this episode, we discuss the famous short story, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Your support helps me make more videos and podcasts: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jordanmyers Twitter: @JordanCMyers Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD1RiH1j-M6C59z1upPXkWw?disable_polymer=true That's BS Website: https://thatsbs.fireside.fm/ Contact me thatsbspodcast@gmail.com Check out my philosophy graduate school podcast here: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Above all, Thanks for watching.

In this episode, we discuss the famous short story, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Your support helps me make more videos and podcasts: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jordanmyers Twitter: @JordanCMyers Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD1RiH1j-M6C59z1upPXkWw?disable_polymer=true That's BS Website: https://thatsbs.fireside.fm/ Contact me thatsbspodcast@gmail.com Check out my philosophy graduate school podcast here: https://platoscave.fireside.fm/ Above all, Thanks for watching.

Hey Munchies, prepare for a double munch today! We compare and contrast two short stories with similar themes. Sometimes we even say smart things. Enjoy! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/literary-lunch-podcast/support

Would you walk away from a utopia if its very existence was dependent on the abject suffering of one child? In Episode #188 on 'Injustice' Juan and I discuss: the basic plot of the fantastic short story by Ursula K. Le Guin, why people might actively create injustice in the world, the internal processes we use to justify with doing morally dubious things, times in our life when we have felt injustice, how being utilitarian might both be good and a bad thing, our decision if we were characters in the story and why taking heroin to increase your wellbeing might just make sense.As always, we hope you enjoy, Mere Mortals out!Timeline:(0:00) - Intro(1:30) - Definition(2:20) - Summary of 'The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas'(9:18) - Where does injustice start?(14:40) - Benefiting from people less fortunate(18:19) - Justification: the internal process of creating justice(20:45) - Personal stories of receiving/doling out injustice(25:36) - The utilitarian viewpoint(32:07) - Would we walk away from the Omelas?(37:28) - Ethically speaking, everyone should start taking heroin(41:05) - Injustice that is visible(44:59) - Mere Mortal Moments(48:25) - The biggest injustice in the world right nowConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/

Utopia isn't all it's cracked up to be in this classic story from one of the greats that is more of a thought/discussion piece. [Aggregate score: 6.75* Score reflects limits of MOTS system in this case, as expanded upon in episode] The post Literature: The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin appeared first on The Lost Signals.

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! This week we look at "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin. A fantastic piece on utilitarianism and guilt. Let's talk about the structure, can you change it?, and compare it a bit to some other popular pieces on it like The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzdqkkUKpfRIbCXmiFvqxIw?sub_confirmation=1 ================================= Books or Stories Mentioned in this Video: "The Wind's Twelve Quarters: Stories" by Ursula K. Le Guin https://amzn.to/3ecnu16 Channels Mentioned in this Video: ================================= #UrsulaKLeGuin #TheOnesWhoWalkAwayfromOmelas #SFFBooktube TABLE OF CONTENTS: 0:00 Introductions 0:35 Publication, Author, + Themes 2:55 Plot Summary 4:50 Analysis 21:32 Wrap Up and Ratings Do you have a Short Story or Novel you'd think we'd like or would want to see us cover? Submit your entry here: https://forms.gle/41VvksZTKBsxUYQMA You can reach us on Social Media: ▶ The Literary Discourse Discord: https://discord.gg/2YyXPAdRUy ▶ http://instagram.com/thecodexcantina ▶ http://twitter.com/thecodexcantina ====Copyright Info==== Song: Infinite Artist: Valence Licensed to YouTube by: AEI (on behalf of NCS); Featherstone Music (publishing), and 1 Music Rights Societies Free Download/Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHoqD47gQG8 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thecodexcantina/support

Next up in dystopian month-- Have you ever been to Salem, Oregon? Well, to make it as perfect as it is (festivals in the green, green grass with beautiful naked people, ribbons flowing in their hair), they trap an innocent child in a dark, dank basement and make it suffer day in, day out. Is it too high a price to pay? Tell me: will you walk away from Omelas?

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2020 was a long year. It wasn't the best one for a lot of us, but it did bring a lot of positives; this podcast, for one. And for that, we are grateful. Thank you to everyone who has been a part of this, and will continue to be a part of it. In this episode, we wanted to do something different, change things up. Accordingly, we thought it'd be a good idea to talk about some questions and comments we've been getting over the past weeks. As a welcome to what we hope will be a better year, we discuss the process that led to the creation of the name, We Might Be Tables, an overlooked possibility from The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, and existential crises. Mentioned in the episode: Fesliyan Studios Cleanfeed Jasleen Kaur: Instagram: iloveorangepeel_design Website: https://jaskdh.wixsite.com/jasleenkaur --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/we-might-be-tables/message

We review the novella, The Deep, by Rivers Solomon with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes. Add it to the oeuvre of mermaid fiction, but unlike The Little Mermaid, the merfolk of this world don't lose their voice. We discuss terror management theory, air guns, mermaid cunnilingus and not much more. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin: https://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/emily.klotz/engl1302-6/readings/the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas-ursula-le-guin/view The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin The Freedom of the Shifting Seas by Jaymee Goh Terror Management Theory and the COVID-19 Pandemic: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7498956/#:~:text=With%20his%20colleagues%20Jeff%20Greenberg,results%20from%20the%20uniquely%20human

Today on this episode of Welcome to the End, we are talking about The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin. Join us as we discuss the complicated ethical questions raised in this short story. Follow Welcome to the End on Twitter @ twitter.com/TotheEndPod Have a story you think we need to read, email us at welcometotheendpod@gmail.com Music by Lemmino The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, https://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/emily.klotz/engl1302-6/readings/the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas-ursula-le-guin/view --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/welcome-to-the-end/support

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas is a powerful work of short-fiction that raises many questions about happiness, utilitarianism, and utopia. If the condition for an idyllic world to exist was that one child should be subjected to eternal torture, would you support that world? We'll do you one better: what if this child was you? In this episode, we discuss the nature and implications of Ursula K. Le Guin's acclaimed text, both for our current reality and the future. Veritasium: Is Success Luck or Hard Work? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/we-might-be-tables/message

Originally published in the October edition of New Dimensions 3 in 1973. The story was nominated for the Locust Award for Best Short Fiction in 1974 and won the Hugo Award for Best Short story in the same year.The utopian Omelas enjoys its annual summer festival amid the dark secret that is kept within a broom closet of a cellar beneath one of the richest buildings of the city.Narration, Music, Sound Design by Jon Fredette.

In many ways, the future of fertility is closely tied to the future of work, as companies determine how to best ensure that their employees are holistically supported. Employers have a unique and important role to play when it comes to access to fertility care, especially in the U.S. where 150 million people get their health coverage through employers. Carrot is a fertility benefits company solving the growing problem of access to inclusive fertility care.  Show notes Conversation with Tammy Sun (0:35) Tammy is the cofounder and CEO of Carrot.  Carrot is a global fertility benefits company.  More females above the age of 30 are giving birth than females below the age of 30. Carrot has been global from the start and is operational in over 40 countries today.     Listener question From Leah via email: “I recently listened to another podcast - Tales of Silicon Valley - which talked about the 10's of thousands of people who are employed as contract workers by Facebook and other companies to act as 'human filters' for social media sites. These individuals are exposed to horrific images repeatedly all day, every day in order to keep the sites clean and safe for public consumption. I was greatly disturbed by the realization that in order to protect me from seeing these images, a subset of the population has the grueling task of looking at photos posted by the worst of humanity and clicking ‘Ignore, Delete, or Escalate.'  I immediately thought back to the conversation Phil and Brittney had during their SciFi-preneurship - another amazing All Turtles podcast series! They spoke about The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula Le Guin where all the world is at peace except for the suffering of one child. Since learning about these human filters, I've struggled with the moral dilemma: There are people suffering so that I can enjoy looking at family and friends' pictures and posts. I see these human filters as necessary 'for the greater good' because AI is not advanced enough to protect the public- however, this is definitely a role where AI can be a force for good. My question is this: Do you think we'll ever get there? Will technology become so skilled it can accurately block gruesome, inappropriate, hateful images and speech? And if so, how long will it take? The narrator Danny Fortson didn't seem to think it was possible.”   We want to hear from you. Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

This week on The Easy Chair, it's Ursula Le Guin's startling short story “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”. Le Guin was a brilliant storyteller of mostly science fiction with a cautionary twist- not unlike Margaret Atwood. In this tale, the nation of Omelas sounds like a utopia, populated by compassionate, earnest citizens who spawn golden, happy children…but at its very root lies a hideous truth upon which the ongoing existence of Omelas rests. Many have seen this dark reality with their own eyes, and the more sensitive others know of it but refuse to look for themselves. Then, there are the ones who walk away from Omelas. This is a powerful, thought-provoking tale about free society and the imperfection of human nature, with abundant parallels to the state of our nation and our world. This week's podcast is brought to you by Quip, the portable, can't live without electric toothbrush that makes best brushing practices a snap for adults and now, for kids! Go to www.getquip.com/easychair and get your first refill pack free. Join over 1million happy, healthy mouths! Also, Ritual, the multivitamin for women and girls that fills in the gaps in your diet with two glowingly transparent, minty capsules a day. You'll get 10% off your first three months by going to www.ritual.com/easychair . Start your Ritual today! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Ursula K. Le Guin, who broke the artificial wall between science fiction and literature, died on January 22nd, 2018 at the age of 88. An essayist and poet along with being a fiction writer, she transcended all genres with the quality of her prose and the allegorical nature of her work. Best known for her novels The Left Hand of Darkness, which dealt with gender; The Dispossessed, which dealt with a utopian civilization; her series of novels in the fantasy realm of Earthsea; and her short stories, especially “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” Ursula K. Le Guin broke ground in several directions over the course of her writing life. But she started in science fiction fantasy. On September 29th, 2000, Richard Wolinsky and his then co-host Richard A. Lupoff spoke with Ursula K. Le Guin about her career as a writer and about her latest novel, a political and social science fiction allegory, “The Telling.” This podcast is taken from that interview, with segments from a short 1983 interview conducted by Richard A. Lupoff. The official interview ends at around the 36 minute mark, and the final fifteen minutes consist of a free-form discussion about Ursula LeGuin's history in the science fiction field and her thoughts on several writers, including Philip K. Dick and James Tiptree Jr.   The post Encore Podcast: Ursula K. Le Guin appeared first on KPFA.

This was a hard episode to record. As you'll probably be aware, the incredible Ursula K. Le Guin passed away early this year, and in this podcast we set out to untangle just what it was that she did. Did she change science fiction? What will her legacy be? Full disclosure: this will probably be just as difficult to listen to as it was to record. But it's worth it. Ursula K. Le Guin deserved it. She earned the right to demand our sincerity. You can find our back episodes on YouTube. Our Twitter handle is @imaginary_pod, our website www.imaginaries.net, and our email imaginarypod@gmail.com. If you would like to help support our work, you can do so at www.ko-fi.com/imaginaries. And don't forget to vote on on our "What Should We Read Next?" lists on Goodreads! See our Twitter for more information on that. Thanks for listening!

Ursula K. Le Guin, who broke the artificial wall between science fiction and literature, died on January 22nd, 2018 at the age of 88. An essayist and poet along with being a fiction writer, she transcended all genres with the quality of her prose and the allegorical nature of her work. Best known for her novels The Left Hand of Darkness, which dealt with gender; The Dispossessed, which dealt with a utopian civilization; her series of novels in the fantasy realm of Earthsea; and her short stories, especially “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” Ursula K. Le Guin broke ground in several directions over the course of her writing life. But she started in science fiction fantasy. On September 29th, 2000, Richard Wolinsky and his then co-host Richard A. Lupoff spoke with Ursula K. Le Guin about her career as a writer and about her latest novel, a political and social science fiction allegory, “The Telling.” This podcast is taken from that interview, with segments from a short 1983 interview conducted by Richard A. Lupoff. The official interview ends at around the 36 minute mark, and the final fifteen minutes consist of a free-form discussion about Ursula LeGuin's history in the science fiction field and her thoughts on several writers, including Philip K. Dick and James Tiptree Jr.   The post Ursula K. Le Guin (1928-2018) appeared first on KPFA.

In the short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," the happiness of thousands is dependent on the torture of a single innocent child. Rev. Ken Beldon ties that story to this summer's documentary "The House I Live In," criticizing the human toll of America's drug war.