![]() ![]() ![]() If that’s true, then why should the things that destroy us so thoroughly stick around? Rocannon’s World, after all, is patterned after Norse mythology, that makeshift patchwork of stories that, finally, dissolves into Ragnarok and its apocalyptic reconstruction of the cosmology of things. This is the hopeful Le Guin, the author who could point at a new dawn breaching the horizon and give us some hope that things could be better no matter how hard they are now. The current shape of the world has nothing to do with what it was or what it could be. Things don’t have to be the way they are forever, and it takes an immense amount of bravery and vision to find the pathway out of the track we’ve set ourselves in. ![]() This is the core of her oft-shared quotation about capitalism being no more grounded in the world than the divine right of kings. It encourages us to think that we can emulate characters like Semley the current shape of the world has nothing to do with what it was or what it could be. That’s what Le Guin’s work does at its best. ![]()
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