Ursula K. Le Guin: Listening to the Unheard Voices

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6 жыл бұрын

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."

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@sebby1587 5 жыл бұрын

what an absolute freaking legend. Love this woman

@sebby1587 5 жыл бұрын

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

@ad7265 3 жыл бұрын

@@akwon1618 you take this L lmao

@kathyd2945 6 жыл бұрын

"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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@pyrrho314 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@shadowfox6438 6 жыл бұрын

I love how she speaks. It's simple but powerful.

@innocentmaps 6 жыл бұрын

"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.

@PSYMASMann 4 жыл бұрын

Perhaps Zoe was a little leading with that question, expecting a different answer. Zoe's laugh is rather dismissive.

@HappyGrl41 Жыл бұрын

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.

@IchabodSpoonbill 6 жыл бұрын

One of the greats.

@depressoespresso420 4 жыл бұрын

So good! But wish she was given more time to elaborate, could listen to her talk forever

@els1f 3 жыл бұрын

I genuinely love this person 😊

@plantefitch 4 жыл бұрын

I love this woman!

@davidwivagg7393 Жыл бұрын

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.

@wowproductions3779 6 ай бұрын

She was and is an inspiration ❤

@diaargh 2 жыл бұрын

I love her so much

@imaginationexpansion5818 6 жыл бұрын

we meets love everywhere

@zodiak121 6 жыл бұрын

where can I see the whole video?

@alexanderkirko 2 жыл бұрын

Progress gets harder to define, the more developed an economy becomes. If there is no safe drinking water, then it's trivial to pinpoint.

@lynchburgva8118 5 жыл бұрын

"..the dominant European white imperial voice has got us where we are - and it's not a very good place."

@vasilikid 3 жыл бұрын

she saw everything clearly

@bakkermaarten007 2 жыл бұрын

Well, that's clearly nonsense. The white imperial voice has brought the world tremendous scientific, economic and cultural progress.

@rosstatham4718 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@susanlockhart9345 6 жыл бұрын

We need to listen to the other voices....like the youth

@shaunhall960 Жыл бұрын

Progress for who? Exactly!

@redazarouri6181 3 жыл бұрын

I need samone to translate dis vidéo to arabic because i dont understand a lot of englich i am just start Reading englisch

@Doctor_Paxmor 3 жыл бұрын

Technology is not what has put us on the current trajectory. Capitalism is. To conflate these two things is absurd.

@ximono 3 жыл бұрын

Our use of technology has. It's not just capitalism, marxism has also shown its willingness to exploit nature in the name of progress.

@ekkiazure Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@kevinrussell1144 11 ай бұрын

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

@kevinrussell1144 11 ай бұрын

Current trajectory of what??? Tyranny, pedophilia, ginned up racial strife, slave factories? Capitalism supports NONE of these, but Communism and "Progressive" Thought do.

@neetfreek9921 9 ай бұрын

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.

@Khultan 6 жыл бұрын

RIP

@level1life79 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@bambiterranova5837 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@RaxeCAT 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@gg3675 Жыл бұрын

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.

@pushista9322 2 ай бұрын

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.

@isawamoose Жыл бұрын

I feel sorry for the people who thought this was enlightening.

@nikokosanovich6475 Жыл бұрын

what is it about youtube comment sections where people act like the most condescending know-it-all’s. congrats on ur massive, massive brain

@isawamoose Жыл бұрын

@@nikokosanovich6475 thanks bro! It's taken awhile to get here, I'd like to thank the academy....

@kaneda7368 Жыл бұрын

@@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.