The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas: A Story (A Wind's Twelve Quarters Story)
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"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" is a philosophical short story by Ursula K. Le Guin, first published in 1973. It poses a moral question about happiness and the cost at which it comes. The story describes the utopian city of Omelas during the Festival of Summer. Omelas is portrayed as an idyllic place filled with joy, prosperity, and
... See moreThe trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain