Ursula Le Guin video
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The Dispossessed probably sits on many members bookshelves. I came across this video of the author.
Quote:“I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope,” said Ursula K. Le Guin“We will need writers,” Le Guin continued, “who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries—the realists of a larger reality.” the most poignant lines Le Guin spoke are the following: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art—the art of words.”
The whole speech is a biting condemnation of the commodification of creative writing.
The short 7 minute video is well worth watching
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