Posts from — June 2007

I wrote this to Matthew in reply to his unpostable comment about my post on Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Dispossessed.

And didn’t Ursula LeGuin also link all this talk up with something that sounded a lot like the internet?

Or did I imagine that…?

I think it was either in The Dispossessed or Always Coming Home.

Another thing to remember, LeGuin’s anarchist ‘utopia’ Anarres wasn’t purely utopian – the book was originally subtitled “an ambiguous utopia”, I believe.

Matthew

Matthew then asked if I was going to write on High Moders any time soon, as I promised I would, and what I thought about minimum stratum to understand or apply systems theory stuff.

It was certainly an interesting book, although the ending was wimpy. I didn’t know about the original subtitle. That fits with how Annares comes off in the reading. It’s utopia but there’s always a shadow side to utopias. Even with the lousy ending, it’s a fascinating read. I’m recommending it to some of the bigger thinkers I know. Capitalism and market economies come off as evil. Or kind of evil. Or maybe it’s all a fallen world.

I will be writing something about high moders soon. I’ve been talking about it with the people I coach, especially as it relates to their behaviours in relationship to others. It’s amazing how much high moders all look alike. But I don’t see the “chosen ones” who got tapped in their twenties to be the next big thing.

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