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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩

Interesting discussion between Liza Featherstone and Kristen R. Ghodsee about dystopian Sci-Fi and American education:

From Alduous Huxley’s Brave New World to George Orwell’s 1984 to Lois Lowry’s The Giver, dystopian stories dominate school reading lists. ... As Ghodsee argues ... “The message of these books is loud and clear: you may be unhappy with the way things are but forget about trying to change them.”

jacobin.com/2023/06/kristen-gh

jacobin.comDon’t Be Afraid to Embrace the Utopian SpiritThere’s no substitute for building worker power and winning state power to change the world. But we also shouldn’t reject the utopian spirit that has long driven many to create egalitarian living and working arrangements.
#SciFi#utopianism#dystopia
Jun 17, 2023, 04:15 AM·Public·Web
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