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@SmudgeTheInsultCat Its from a playbook right out of Octavia Butler's book The Parable of the Talents.
Octavia Butler and her Olivetti—Smithsonian Magazine
Butler’s prescience in the Parable duology has been cited during the SoCal wildfires. Her Olivetti Studio 46 manual typewriter is now a museum piece, literally.
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Smithsonian Magazine · In Her Inventive and Prescient Stories, Octavia Butler Wrote Herself Into the Science Fiction Canon
Please read my blog post about Octavia Butler & the LA Fires....
https://newstephie.wordpress.com/2025/01/14/octavia-butler-climate-change-the-la-fires/
@noiseician at times it seems they are convinced #ParableOfTheSower and #ParableOfTheTalents are not #SciFi #Dystopic novels, but a blueprint for making America great again.
After all, it was #OctaviaEButler who coined the phrase #MAGA back in the 1990s
“Beware:
Ignorance
Protects itself.
Ignorance
Promotes suspicion.
Suspicion
Engenders fear.
Fear quails,
Irrational and blind,
Or fear looms,
Defiant and closed.
Blind, closed,
Suspicious, afraid,
Ignorance
Protects itself,
And protected,
Ignorance grows.”
#OctaviaButler #ParableOfTheTalents #ScienceFiction
Escrito hace más de 25 años, en el siglo pasado, preclaridad de visión asombrosas
Today seems like a good day to consult #OctaviaEButler's prescient wisdom again. #ParableOfTheSower #ParableOfTheTalents #SFF #Books
I was out DJing at a club last night (it was a fundraiser for a friend who was injured by a hit-and-run driver). Had a very long conversation outside with some club-goers about #OctaviaButler, and how we were there on 7/20/2024, and talking about current events and Octavia Butler. It was a powerful bonding moment.
#ParableOfTheSower #ParableOfTheTalents
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@fbaum In some of this fiction, we’re already there… or so damn close
With a past history of religious abuse I have to admit that Octavia Butler's Parable of the Talents was a tough go for me. Triggers galore. I liked the way that Butler expanded on the MC with the daughter's perspective from the future. Widespread slavery in the USA, outside of the prison system, in the name of Christianity (again) is very easy to imagine. An author way ahead of her time. #OctaviaInOctober #ParableOfTheTalents
In #ParableOfTheTalents (1998) there is an actual MAGA President named Jarret. Whaaaat #OctaviaInOctober #bookstodon @bookstodon
I am 24% into Parable of the Talents and, as with Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler's understanding of the forces present in the US and their logical progression was 100%.
Compañero Allende 
Published in 1998, The Parable of the Talents by Octavia E Butler, includes a Christofascsist who runs for and wins the US presidency on the slogan "Make America Great Again".
Random "Earthseed" thought:
Structurally, it's really similar to the rise of early Christianity, isn't it? We get a very detailed account of the beginnings of the movement, of the founder's youth and travels and disciple-finding.
Then comes persecution, and we start to get other sources than just the original teachings, especially from critics and enemies. The movement spreads by conversionsof high-profile folks and the broad population.
I read #OctaviaEButler #ParableOfTheSower a few months ago and my name finally came up on the waitlist fpr #ParableOfTheTalents.Bracing for impact as I start to read.
I hadn't heard of Butler before this year but now I am a devoted fan.
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There are analogies here to the development of early Christianity I'll have to think about in more detail, and of leaders failing their families miserably (even though I think her daughter judges her unfairly). There are thoughts on healing, and what makes a message helpful.
I think my major quibble is that it's almost too hopeful. Bouncing back from fascism isn't easy. Building a society isn't easy. But here, this time, this once, it happens.
(5/n, n=5)
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There are several time jumps, and Earthseed's success story feels very rushed compared to other parts of the book. It feels rougher than "Parable of the Sower", I didn't really warm to the new narrators.
But still, it's a very good book, beautifully written and with disturbingly powerful parts - especially the depiction of the time in a labor camp was so horrible, intense, and rang so true, it was hard to read. So was reading about the trauma afterwards.
(4/n)