Living ‘the good life’, in a negative way,
At the expense of ‘the child in the closet’. It is in the closet, sitting in it’s own excrement.
Is this story a Utopia or Dystopia?
Are we living an idealized life that is keeping the world in the closet?
Is this a contract between the few and the many? Our own western civilization and the world?
Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
Learn to Judge not , abandon not,
Stay in this Utopia and try to find love and support for ‘it’, the child…
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