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🍉May 20, 2025

Y la segunda:

Ayer, viendo Abbot Elementary, una serie, comedia un poco sorprendente sobre profes de una escuela primaria (en EEUU), había un club de lectura, y estaban leyendo (y le daban bastantes vueltas e interpretaciones a) #TheParableOfTheSower #LaParáboladelSembrador, de #OctaviaButler.

La serie claro que tiene un trasfondo de apoyo a la educación pública, pero, no sé, yo no me esperaba para nada que se metieran en un texto tan radical, o que a mí me parece tan radical. Muy bien.

M.S. Bellows, Jr.Apr 17, 2025

Just finished Octavia Butler's #TheParableOfTheSower after a 2+ month wait from my public library.

The wait was worth it. Jeez, how could she have predicted today's America in 1993?

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After reading the news for the last couple of days, specially about the culling and striping of institutions, I remind myself that the events of #TheParableOfTheSower started a few months ago, and now I understand the government, the wars, the police, everything in it.

Man, how much prescience did Octavia Butler had?

Chris Aldrich Feb 1, 2025

Quoted The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

Saturday, February 1, 2025

WE HAD A FIRE TODAY.

As a 50 year old with a 13 year old daughter living in Octavia Butler’s neighborhood of Altadena, CA, it was eerie when I re-read The Parable of the Sower last summer. Today following the devastating Eaton Fire, the opening of chapter four just doubles down on the dystopia in which we’re living.

Parable of the Sower Day: 2024-07-20 | Chris Aldrich

Today is the chronological first diary entry in Octavia Butler's 1993 book The Parable of the Sower. It's particularly poignant for me as parallels in the book mirror portions of my life. I've just turned 50, my daughter is 13, I live in Altadena, CA, near the neighborhood where Octavia Butler grew up and in

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3/3

De verdad, es difícil de leer en esta actualidad 🥺😢

Que los poderosos violan la ley sin consecuencias, pues claman hacerlo “en nombre de dios” y por “el bien mayor”, lo que a la vista de muchos legitimiza sus acciones.

Qué horror, hace 30 años era ficción y hoy es una realidad.

#OctaviaEButler #TheParableOfTheSower #TheParableOfTheTalents #ParábolaDelSembrador #ParábolaDeLosTalentos

Chris Aldrich Jul 21, 2024

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Parable of the Sower Day: 2024-07-20 | Chris Aldrich

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Gladwyn d’Souza Jul 16, 2024

It takes a serious amount of shamelessness to flaunt one's hideous wealth in one of the most unequal countries in the world. Though it is the second largest food producer after China, India is home to a quarter of the world’s underfed, with approximately 190 million hungry people. The poorest Indian states have infant mortality rates that supersede sub-Saharan Africa, according to Oxfam, and every second, about two Indians are pushed into poverty because of rising healthcare costs.

#TheParableOfTheSower

https://open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/ambani-wedding-spectacle-india-celebrities-modi?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

The Ambani Wedding Was a Grotesque Spectacle

The glitzy ceremonies underscored India’s dark new confluence of money and Hindu extremism.

Zeteo

Gladwyn d’Souza Jun 4, 2024

Climate change comes for the wealthy too: “My home has three air conditioners, but frequent power outages have left me helpless,” said Singh

#TheParableOfTheSower

https://open.substack.com/pub/billmckibben/p/intensity?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

Intensity

Right Now, Everything's Turned to 11

The Crucial Years

Gladwyn d’Souza Jan 12, 2024

https://newrepublic.com/article/177733/billionaire-solano-california-tech-secession

#TheParableOfTheSower: Despite Silicon Valley’s talk of techno-optimism and abundance, many tech plutocrats are plagued by a “creeping sense of paranoia” about the future, said Slobodian in an interview. Fearing the possibility of civilizational collapse—or driven by “greed, megalomania and the desire to have a zero percent tax rate”—some tech elites seek a retreat into bespoke fortress societies.
#TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence #capitalismisclimateterrorism #bidenomicstricklesdown