Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, Water-Meadow, Central Heating
13 Aug 2016
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Leguin, the ones who walk away from omelas . Festival of summer: processions moving through the streets, toward the north side of the city, leads to the green fields, a water-meadow, where boys and girls exercised their restive horses before the race . We have a bad habit of considering happiness as something rather stupid . In omelas, there is no technology: no cars or helicopters. They derive happiness from only owning what is necessary. Things are sorted into three categories: what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive. Central heating, subway trains, washing machines, floating light-sources, fuelless power, a cure for the common cold: what is destructive. Part of the festival includes a horse race. Down below the city, there is a room with a locked door and no windows. In the room there is a child, not sure whether it is a boy or a girl. The door is always locked and it never opens.
