omelas.lol !!

Okay, so, uh, bad, uh, bad news. Bad bad news, we took the kid out of the Omelas hole, yeah. And it turns out that the reason that the utopia was contingent on keeping the kid suffering in the Omelas hole, is that, well, this is pretty awkward to say out loud, but it turns out that the kid really enjoyed suffering in the hole. He specifically enjoyed suffering, in holes and only suffering in holes. Yeah it was actually secretly one of those Aesop’s about how utopia will inevitably be dependent on our ability to accept and accommodate lifestyle choices we don’t understand. I mean he hasn’t said anything, he’s clearly trying to be gracious about it, but he’s trying the sailing and horseriding and all the other boilerplate utopia shit and you can tell he’s kind of just going through the motions, you can tell he really wants to be back in the hole, suffering. He’s really hashing the vibe and now everyone is pissed at us

And the other thing is that it turns out that the Omelas Hole was kind of a dog-heaven-squirrel-heaven containment measure against people who can’t be fulfilled unless they’re causing children to suffer in holes. So those guys are loose amongst the general populace now and it’s kind of a Morlocks-amongst-the-Eloi situation. I mean we sprung the kid and in thirty seconds flat they’d made it topside and organized a school system. It was fascinating, it was like watching carpenter ants working in unison. So that’s also a whole thing