But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."So what the question boils down to - does the benefit of many outweigh the suffering of few? You think you have your answer ready? Is it a resounding NO! coming from the bottom of your outraged heart? I hope it is. " The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. Except for a few who, against all the reason, think of the child and decide to walk away from Omelas into the unknown walk away from the happiness of many built on the suffering of one. But for reasons unspecified, the happiness of all others depends on the suffering of a small child confined in the dark, unloved, malnourished and dirty with its own feces. It just a few pages she asks us to conceive of a utopia, a place where everyone enjoys happiness, the lovely place. Le Guin brings up in her very short 1973 story The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas. And hold your loud and resounding and outraged NO! for a minute.Ī background - this is what the brilliant Ursula K. But for reasons unspecified, the happiness of all others depe Is the happiness of thousands worth the suffering of a single innocent person? Of one innocent child? Think about that. A background - this is what the brilliant Ursula K. And hold your loud and resounding and outraged NO! for a minute. Is the happiness of thousands worth the suffering of a single innocent person? Of one innocent child? Think about that. Thank you, BTS, for excellent music and for making me add yet more books to my already ridiculously long TBR, lol. And even though I read this because of BTS, I was genuinely intrigued with the story once I learned what it was about and greatly enjoyed it. I think that it is loosely inspired and that they referenced it for this reason. I don't know that their MV is directly based off of this short story. What the MV says to me is simply that suffering does not last forever, it has an end. It's possible to be happy and sad at the same time, and this happens to be exactly how Spring Day makes me feel. For me, what BTS is saying is that suffering and happiness exist side by side in life, which I agree with. I think "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" asks if we can accept suffering as the price of our happiness, but more essentially, I think it asks if happiness can even exist without suffering. I take this to heart with BTS's music videos. It may have no definitive reading." One might even interpret it differently than they meant it, but that makes their interpretation no less true than anyone else's. A story can say different things to different people. Le Guin said in the Afterword of this story that, "n talking about the "meaning" of a story, we need to be careful not to diminish it, impoverish it. Trying to uncover a definitive and objective meaning is beside the point of art. The songs and the music videos that go with them can mean different things to different people. The songs and the music videos that go with them can mean different things to diffe …more What I love about BTS's MVs is that they're up for interpretation. Rachel What I love about BTS's MVs is that they're up for interpretation.
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