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How to Build a World - Coggle Diagram

- - - - "Enough should be a human right, a floor below which no one can fall; also a ceiling above which no one can rise." (Robinson 16)
      - Bring an end to social inequality
        
        No more rich people or poor people
        
        Zero Sum
        
        “Possibly some of the richest two percent of the world’s population have decided to give up on the pretense that “progress” or “development” or “prosperity” can be achieved for all eight billion of the world’s people.” (Robinson 16)
        
        One side of humanity is thriving due to wealth, while the other side is suffering due to the lack of wealth
      - People need to work together in order to save the world
  - - - "hope I made clear that dystopia and utopia are a dialectical pair [that] can’t be pulled apart. Nothing’s fixed forever" (Lewis and Robinson)
- - - - A place with no problems
        
        However, Narrator contemplates how the readers will react to this imaginary plave
        
        Constantly changes it to satisfy others
        
        Let's people's desires take control of his world
        
        "I fear that Omelas so far strikes some of you as goody-goody. Smiles, bells, parades, horses, bleh. If so, please add an orgy" (Le Guin)
        
        Hypocrites
        
        Will abuse a deformed child in order to continue their happy city life
        
        "to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed" (Le Guin)
        
        This brings forth a question of Omela's ethics and political practices
        
        "Given the fact that the ethical dilemma posed by the child's suffering is the basis of the social contract, it is also necessarily a political dilemma." (Tabone)
        
        A perfect society that feeds off the suffering of one
      - Example of no such thing as a Utopia
- - - - Suggests that a person's ideal Utopia may not be an Utopia for someone else
      - Social commentary on England's style of government
        
        Makes a lot of parallels/contrasts to England's government
        
        Utopia is the representation of a rational, perfect, and happy society "opposed to an irrationally ruled Europe, vitiated by horrible absurdities and injustices, and torn apart by the most incredible enmities that ingenerate devastating wars." (Piredda)
    - - Ex: People are raised to believe that farming is essential to life
        
        They are taught things in school that are vital to the government's goals (ex: farming)
        
        " they use all possible methods to infuse, very early, into the tender and flexible minds of children, such opinions as are both good in themselves and will be useful to their country" (More 73)
      - Women were restricted to certain jobs because of their physical stature
      - Would have strict punishments for lazy workers
    - - Utopia
        
        The whole nation shares their goods
        
        "for among them there is no unequal distribution, so that no man is poor, none in necessity" (More 77)
        
        A Perfect Society where everyone works towards one goal
- - - - Taught that they are only valued for what they produce
        
        The clone kid are only liked for the organs they can offer
      - Eventually told truth, all clones accept their doom faith
        
        "you'll start to donate your vital organs. That's what each of you was created to do'’ (Ishiguro 72)
        
        “I was pretty much ready when I became a donor. It felt right. After all, it's what we're supposed to be doing, isn't it?” (Ishiguro 207)
    - - Form of racism
        
        systematic racism
        
        oppression
        
        Zero Sum
        
        Humans benefit out of abuse of clones
        
        “an unjust capitulation to the demands of an oppressive social order” (Levy 4)
    - - clones are seen as only tools
      - Clones don't value their own lives
        
        “Kathy's lack of rebellious impulse is still frustrating but understandable when considering the monolithic social forces pressuring her to relinquish her personal freedoms” (Levy 4).
- - - - "the children of the city come forth, most wearing wings" (Jemisin)
    - - No discrimination
        
        All work forces are cherished
        
        "Um-Helat’s farmers arrive, invited as always to be honored alongside the city’s merchants and technologers." (Jemisin)
        
        Accepts all types of people
        
        "The citizens of Um-Helat are so many and so wildly different in appearance and origin and development" (Jemisin)
        
        "the defining characteristic of Um-Helat is ultimately that 'every soul matters, and even the idea that some might not is anathema'" (Tabone)
      - To maintain utopian state, they limit the growth of their people (ex. limit on certain knowledge)
        
        "But some knowledge is dangerous." (Jemisin)
      - They kill any person that shows a sign of evil (treat evil like it is a disease)
        
        "they share the idea. The evil . . . spreads" (Jemisin).
      - A Perfect City of Technological Advancement
- - - - Face systematic racism
        
        Fights the corrupt system
        
        Great hate for orogenes
        
        “The result of this ambient hostility is the sense that the whole of the Stillness opposes Essun and her kind” (Kearse 36)
        
        Dehumanization
        
        "That we’re not human is just the lie they tell themselves so they don’t have to feel bad about how they treat us” (Jemisin 354)
        
        Use orogenes like tools
        
        There is always figure looming over the orogenes like a predator watching over a child
      - Form of slavery
        
        “The orogenes of the Fulcrum serve the world” (Jemisin 34)
      - Oppression
        
        Zero Sum
      - Symbolism African American Racism In America
        
        White supremacy
        
        Sanzed Equatorial Affiliation and Guardians
- - - - Brainwashing
        
        A lot of Slaves can't imagine themselves as free people
        
        "To escape the boundary of the plantation was to escape the fundamental principles of your existence: impossible" (Whitehead 7)
      - Dehumanization
        
        slaves are treated like products
        
        "reminder that she is only a human being for a tiny moment across the eternity of her servitude" (Whitehead 29)
    - - African Americans being slaved around in the fields.