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"There is a bit of a walking-away-from-Omelas element to this—you get to think about driverless cars and human immortality because in some dingy basement ad met
by ngold 7y ago
"There is a bit of a walking-away-from-Omelas element to this—you get to think about driverless cars and human immortality because in some dingy basement ad metrics are being tortured—and it was a lot easier to forget the, uh, all the internet stuff in 2015 than it is in 2019."
One of the best and most tragic short fiction stories ever written. It is scary how accurate the metaphor is.
- RomanBob 7y agoAre you referring to walking away from omelas? I don't see why people think that story is in anyway interesting or tragic. It's non-sensical, when reality isn't so. It's only deep if you have never read an account of a war or read history or basically know anything about how anything works outside of your suburb.
- ramzyo 7y agoIt would be more helpful to focus your comment on seeking to understand why the OP connects with the story than to put them down and imply that they've never read an account of war, history, or how things work outside of their own suburb.