[ SECRET POST #4917 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4917 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Here's my understanding of this story:

So there was a city, and everyone there was aware of a situation. Some people looked at it and that, "there's no problem," some people looked at it and said, "maybe there's a problem but it's not my problem," and some people said "this is such a problem that I can't live here any more," and left the city. None of them actually did anything about the problem. And everything stayed the same. Forever.

[(Anonymous)]

Yup. That's all there is. The story doesn't give any other options because doing that would require making the allegory more complex, and why bother with that?

[(Anonymous)]

It’s been a while so I might not remember 100% but everyone is very aware that their utopia depends (or at least believe it depends) on the situation. if iirc it’s to the point that they strive in all other respects to be morally upright, productive, and dedicated to advancement in all arenas of human achievement because they understand the trade-off and don’t want to waste it. But most of them are still willing to make it.

It always worked with me more as a distillation of the feeling of frustrated helplessness at what can be done as a single person who can’t make that trade-off or figure a way around it more than as a narrative or a scolding.