With deliberately both vague and vivid descriptions, the narrator depicts a summer festival in the utopian city of Omelas, whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child
Well, almost the same. Except that it's a dystopia and that its wretchedness depends on the perpetual misery of hundreds of thousands of children.
encyclopediadramatica has many more accurate and biting names for that hugbox (warning, not safe for work, barely safe for life It's ED, though, so what do you expect, lol).
Yeah. Unfortunately every instance I found was a PDF. So given the choice between linking a binary here, linking to some random's literature blog, or linking to wikipedia, I picked the latter.
First 1984. Now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas
England's really speedrunning the dystopian literature.
Well, almost the same. Except that it's a dystopia and that its wretchedness depends on the perpetual misery of hundreds of thousands of children.
The story itself is only a handful of pages, just go read it rather than looking at the wikifag summary.
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encyclopediadramatica has many more accurate and biting names for that hugbox (warning, not safe for work, barely safe for life It's ED, though, so what do you expect, lol).
I remember it, I just quoted it for context. I assure you that I'm not fond of Wikifag.
Upvote for "wikifag" which after years on /Pol/ I've never seen before.
Yeah. Unfortunately every instance I found was a PDF. So given the choice between linking a binary here, linking to some random's literature blog, or linking to wikipedia, I picked the latter.
1984 was an instruction manual.
Well yeah. Men are women. Freedom of speech is fascism.
The Sacrificial Goat comes to mind (or is it lamb?)