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Matthew Callaway 
@damian I love UKL but I always think of her name as though it was written in Klingon... Ursulak L'Guin
@matthewcallaway 😂 i love her name, sounds so enigmatic.
Disco Sexual@matthewcallaway @damian oh my god that's beautiful
Malikah@damian well, it also shows there is room for development.
Chris Lamke@vickyveritas One of my favorite authors. The world is richer for her having lived in it.
Vicky Veritas@crlamke 100%, Chris! Thank you!
HikerSelma@damian
Ursula Le Guin: an underrated author pigeonholed into the fantasy genre where she does not fit.
Ursula Le Guin: an underrated author pigeonholed into the fantasy genre where she does not fit.
EconEnby@damian could you add alt-text in a reply so i can boost?
Krysalix@damian
And thus we get the right wing attack on public schools and critical thinking. Stifle people's imagination and hang on to the power they hold just a little longer.
And thus we get the right wing attack on public schools and critical thinking. Stifle people's imagination and hang on to the power they hold just a little longer.
mistershins@damian Love her. Love this quote. Thanks for posting.
@jeffmills2 i love her too 🙂 you're most welcome
Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼♀@damian As her books showed so beautifully... always showing us other ways we could live.
infernalsk majeskæg@damian If you're going to post a text quote as an image, it should be pretty easy to caption.
sozutovo@damian cela me fait penser à la réflexion de Pierre Bourdieu à propos de « l’impensé » qui devient « impensable ».
SOS FACING STATE RETALIATION@damian Change is impossible only in the death of imagination.
Lore Birdsong 🦄@damian this is a great quote. I'm adding this for our seeing impaired siblings. 🙏🏼
Alt text: Image is of text on a off white field reading, "The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary."
Ursula K. Le Guin
Alt text: Image is of text on a off white field reading, "The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary."
Ursula K. Le Guin
/will(?:ow)?/g@damian could this be why american cinema, television, and games have either become boilerplate or stagnant?
Weirdispartofthejob@damian works for history lessons as well
Anoosh J@damian Arundhati Roy’s essay, A Failure of Imagination, made a big impression on me. Its central tenet is distilled in this Ursula LeGuin quote.
I have had this conversation with my kids, about how school systems in the US don’t value and rarely encourage imagination and creativity—especially as kids get older—and how this limits how they think as adults.
@damian Imagination is POWERFUL. This is why fascist regimes attempt to control art, and why movements seeking liberation must never say that making art is somehow frivolous or ”taking away from the struggle.”
To create different worlds, we have to be able to imagine them first.
Anirudh@damian @[email protected] As Guru Laghima said, "Instinct is a lie told by a fearful body hoping to be wrong."
SpliceFixer 
@damian Text reads “The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary.”
Ursula K. LeGuin
Ursula K. LeGuin
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Ron Masse@damian my favorite passage of any work I’ve ever read is the first two paragraphs of The Lathe of Heaven. She paints such a beautiful picture with her words
Baptiste Bourdon@damian almost misread it, so i'll post what I thought it was going to be :
"The exercise of imagination is dangerous in the hands of those who profit from the way things are, because it has the power to make you see the world in their eyes, and to convince you that they're your equals, sharing the same dominionist hopes and dreams of being permanent, universal and necessary."
David Scott Moyer@damian Glad you edited this and it popped up again. Such a great quote.
Aviva Gary@damian word ✊
Pare 
🚲 🌞@damian «L'esercizio dell'#immaginazione è pericoloso per chi trae profitto da come stanno le cose, perché ha il potere di mostrare che come le cose stanno non è definitivo, né universale, né necessario»
di Ursula K. #LeGuin
da Una #guerra senza fine
Tutto il testo (originale) è reperibile in rete: https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/3585-a-war-without-end-by-ursula-k-le-guin
A War Without End by Ursula K. Le Guin
A War Without End Some thoughts, written down at intervals, about oppression, revolution, and imagination. Slavery My country came together in one revolution and was nearly broken by another. The first revolution was a protest against galling, stupid, but relatively mild social and economic exploitation. It was almost