In this wide-ranging conversation from 2015, Ursula K. Le Guin talks to Zoë Carpenter about climate change, the definition of progress, and how "the future in science fiction is just a metaphor for now."
"The future in science fiction is just a metaphor for now" .... Wow, I just love that. I also noticed that her eyes welled with tears when she described the current state of our environment as a result of technology. Damn. This whole thing is such a great interview. Thank you for posting.
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she's the only person I know of that rocked the bowl cut to the point where it's not even a bowl cut anymore it's reached imperial symbolic like status
RIP, great great woman and writer. I just have been reading the Hainish novels collected in two volumes and thinking a lot about her for the last couple months. Her fiction should be in the classroom, so not-preachy but evocative... just... RIP.
"I think when I was 15 I just saw open doors!" (Laughs)...A wonderful interview and my compliments to INTERVIEWER & The Nation. That this is only 10 mins long is... Wow. So much in here to examine, unpack, consider, and like she always does, Ursula has infused her answers with candor, mirth, personality, and questions that are remarkable for their resonance, provocative relevance and her ability to speak simply and powerfully about some heavy and provocative issues without sacrificing any truths. She was a wise and beautiful woman who was as loved as she was loving. . Thank you Ursula for all you gave us. It's a comfort to know you're keeping a loving meta eye on us and the directions of our questionable progress.
I got to this brilliant and visionary woman late but I'm glad I was able to hear what she has to say. I love this interview and her fears for the future are well justified. The world has lost an important ally. RIP Ms. Le Guin.
What a wonderful person. 'If we are going to get anywhere we really going to have to listen to each other.' Seems obvious but perfectly and beautifully put. The world is a smaller place without her.
@@bakkermaarten007 Given her writing and interests, I would assume she means *culturally* "we" (the US, I guess) are not in a good space. Pretty bang on I'd say, given that the nation elected Trump the next year.
I have enjoyed her stories. I have written an I-Ching, but nobody wants it. I have even derived during my pain as a driver the order of the I-Ching. Now I hear her talking about progress like I have before to the voices in my head. Literally, the I-Ching is written to denounce the voices in one's head as perversions with which one needn't associate.
@@ximono unlike capitalism, Marxism is not an economic system, but rather an analytical framework that seeks to explain the socioeconomic dynamics that propel historical movement. as an economic system, capitalism operates under the imperative of perpetual growth, which simple reasoning will reveal to be incompatible with its containment within a planet of limited space and limited resources.
You lie. Marxism is not an "analytical framework" but a recipe book for tyranny and control, of the economic kind. Capitalism does NOT insist on perpetual growth, but perpetual change. Capitalism, in its pure essence, is use of resources for the production of goods and service governed by a market.@@ekkiazure
Current trajectory of what??? Tyranny, pedophilia, ginned up racial strife, slave factories? Capitalism supports NONE of these, but Communism and "Progressive" Thought do.
People did. I find it very hard to believe that just changing an economic system will entirely reform our species. Also capitalism can become benevolent with enough social structures within it and people to enforce it. At the end of the day people just need to become better. More empathetic, better educated, and healed through the hereditary abuse we perpetuate in our society.
God I love Ursula Le Guin but it hurts to hear she bought into Malthusian "population growth" nonsense, especially as someone who was known to be critical of capitalism.
Not that food and resources can't be distributed in a more humane/democratic way than capitalism but it's true Earth has a limited amount of resources and we can reach it with more and more progress towards it.
It’s disappointing how lazily people take all reference to “population growth” in terms of ecology to be Malthusian. You had all the pieces there. Calling her a Malthusian is insulting af.
The unheard voices? I listen to people of all colors and genders all the time, the animals are the unheard voices.....shut tight behind walls and packaged clean so people are ignorant of the suffering they endure.
Too many "we". It's not "we" who silence women and people of color. It's not "we" who destroy the nature. It's a very small group of the richest people who own the majority of lands, resources, factories - and they also own the governments of different countries because the budgets at their disposal exceed most countries' GDP. It's rather sad to see the wise elderly Ursula, who can say pretty much was she likes at this point, to be apprehensive and ambiguous around this topic. Western capitalist censorship runs deep.
@@nikokosanovich6475 They don't even feel the need to expand, just say whatever and feel like they added something to the discussion. It would almost be annoying if I didn't remind myself none of this matters anyway.
