Not that it is doing that intentionally, it ’ s just a virus. Like now, when the corona virus (Covid-19) is doing its best to pull the rug out from under us. What mistakes will humans always make due to their inherent nature? What common human values remain in any scenario? Is it possible to get away from our egos? To truly care for one another over ourselves? What is it that connects us, motivates us? What assumptions do we live by? What happens when these are taken away? A woman whose mind was always not only questioning but positing imagining different scenarios for humans on a variety of alternate planets and creating characters within which to let them play out, to ultimately inquire what it means to be human. Le Guin, wise thinker of our time, who passed recently, in 2018. It felt like a good time to read some Ursula K.
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