![]() ![]() Octavia Butler’s dystopia is surprisingly close to the reality of our time, in terms of growing precarity, inequality, the onset of the climate crisis and the radical right. “Help us to make America great again.” (Talents, 18) Hell, my parents are still living with their parents.” (Sower, 47) ![]() I won’t be able to get a job or move out of my parents’ house because no job I could get would support me and there are no safe places to move. But the crisis reveals that the current system won’t last What effect the current pandemic will have on our economic, political and Income, an idea that trusts human beings as inherently good. This crisis is actuallyĮnvironment friendly, and gets us closer to the utopian idea of universal basic Instead, the virus was moved around by privilegedīodies who have the freedom to travel across borders. ![]() People commonly think viruses move indiscriminately acrossīorders, bodies and class. Playing out differently in different parts of the world. Every day we see the news of this tragedy Will happen after this time are utopian / dystopian stories that have alreadyīeen drawn by our imagination. Reading Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents in Pandemic Times ![]()
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