The messed up thing about The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas is when you compare it to reality and realize that our reality is so much worse and is built on so much more suffering of the most vulnerable among us.
The Library of Babel was written by Jorge Borges, one of my favorite writers. You didn’t mention his name which is why I mention it here. He specialized in mystical realism and I highly recommend all of his work
That one is mathematically flawed, though. It is ignoring the paradox of a simple paper with two phrases on it. One would be the statement on other side is true, and the one on the other side would be the statement on the other side is false. The solution is no system, no matter how big, can contain it's own description. That's why there are different levels of infinity.
it would be irrelevant since there would be a book that could explain which statement is true or if the book should not be considered as true. The book would only allow you to understand the gibberish
What is crazy is that smart home technology isn’t a far off into the future tech anymore. Some billionaire mansions already have at least 50 % of that tech level at their homes already.
Dude, There Will Come Soft Rains is like one of the best short stories of all time. I read it when I was like eight or nine, and have been in love with it ever since. Peak lineup, that, Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, and All Tomorrows are all peak. I haven't read the others. Truly a peak video.
BELIEVE IN CHRIST NOW BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE JOHN 3:16 FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY SON THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE
So, what was the narrative purpose of the fire at the end? Based on the video I thought the story was about the world moving on even after humans are gone. But the house is destroyed by complete random chance, and as such stops moving forward? I don't get it
All Tomorrows is fantastic, but it isn't horrifying at all when you realize the whole premise is that it's written by a future alien historian who knows nothing about ancient humanity to the point where he doesn't know which way to hold a skull up
Shit you are right… and we must undoubtedly separate both before it is too late and we are unable to tell what’s recorded, transferred, and 100% made by humans or machines. Remember those who control the narrative. Control everything.
The child in Omelas reminds me of Emiya from Fate/Stay Night. Emiya’s motives in the 5th grail war r essentially an attempt to prevent his past self from becoming a counter-guardian, which can easily be compared to the situation of the Omelas child, in regards to how their suffering is responsible for humanity’s survival.
@MoridaFanadierthis video got it wrong tho. The construct people became the modular people after the aliens left. The book has many evolutionary phases for each new human species. The tool people were the last evolutionary step for the water people at the beginning and the modular people the last step for the flesh wall, they attached themselves on their own, not because of the aliens.
@MoridaFanadier its clever. The author is a paleontologist/artist, and it reflect the fact many planets- including earth- start off wirh a floura of organisms that are known as germs. Before actual animals, our planet had "colonies" parasites, fungi, bacteria, and (eventually) viruses
I just want to tell you to please keep making these videos, because of you i got addicted to books and started reading as well and wanna thank you for that
thansk man, first of all that's a good thing, like seriously means a lot to me nd also people should know about books like all tomorrows and ones who walk away from Omelas even if they're not into reading ,n also the plots are just so so interesting what can I even say like books like short stay in hell these kinda gives u like a whole new different perspectives and experience like these stuff are dope I know these could be boring psychologica horror for these who read even more extreme stuff but these are great ones too
A short stay In Hell has completely changed my life. I cannot for the life of my explain exactly how, but I just know that I was a different, and stronger person. My god.
I was amazed at how a short book made me laugh, cry, feel despair and hope. It is really a changing read. Tho, if I remember correctly, we never get the narrator leaving, right? Doesn't the story end with him hopeful but used to the eternity?
@renatolfigyea unfortunately the retelling in the video is all wrong. The library and number of books aren't infinite, if I remember correctly no one besides Soren actually finds a book close to their life story, and in the end Soren mentions having found a book retelling his life story, but it has some inaccuracies and he doesn't know if it will suffice.
I remember looking around for an audiobook to fall asleep to, and came across All Tomorrows. Ended up staying awake for the entirety of the book. It was such an incredible experience listening to the book
5:00 "I spent the first ten years trying to keep the floors waxed, but nothing gets out nuclear fallout from vinyl wood. Nothing!" "And the car! The car! How do you polish rust?" -codsworth fallout 4.
The child in Omelas is a plot point used in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 very effectively! The story of that game is incredible and mystery/worldbuilding/reveals are so good.
I haven't played the game... Now I feel as if I came across a spoiler alert that makes me NOT wanna play it now (sorry, but there was a reason the 1930s Wizard of Oz movie was made saccharine sweet and colorful: THE GREAT DEPRESSION). I need an escape from reality, not a reminder that humanity's cooked.
@fireblade295 it’s not really even a spoiler to be honest. I didn’t specify where it was detailed or how. Also, it’s so hard to predict or fathom in what way it’s possibly even tied to the plot as you play thru it. Nor is it a 1 to 1 usage of the device. It’s simply inspired by it in one part of a story that has many many parts.
It's even cathartic when more obscure and forgotten subspecies of humans make contact with the more advanced civilitazions and all decide to take revenge in The Qs
My answer to the question in Ones who walk away from Omela is most humans won't feel "happy" if they know a child is being abused, so no-one in omelas actually feels happy, they just don't want to lose their situation.
@curious1053shut up .If I was the leader of those people first I would imagined the omela as perfect what good people think which is filled with justice,good happyneds(not pleasure but good one that good people want),love,kind a total utopia ,heaven .Like god himself made it .Then the child who was abused and captured would be Satan if not then the omela world is worthless thens it like loving on satans magic Island or dealing with Satan which way shouldnt . Logically truth will always prevail even after lots of torture and suffering but goodness is eternal
The martian-earth war happened BEFORE the evolution of the Star People. In fact, the Star People came about to ensure no such genocide would happen ever again.
This video left me speechless if you ask me what I think of these stories I can't say anything but even though I want to, it's the most annoying feeling I ever felt
I read The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas at 14, after seeing someone recommend it online. I'm 28 now, and I still remember it from time to time and a sense of dread washes over me. I've only read it once more in these fourteen years and it was just as bad as I remembered, I cried just as much. But I have the clear memory of showing the short story to my mom and a few friends some years after, once I was mature enough, thinking they'd share the sentiment, but they just told me they didn't find it that unsettling. If I were in the story, I'd definitely be one of those who'd end up walking away.
Oh! I remember reading there will come soft rains when I was a child. It was in our Class 6 English book, though only a small part. It didn't feel like psycological horror but I did feel really sad for the poor house.
In the book "short stay in hell" the library isn't infinite, its just huge. Also the story is left with a bleak ending and the main character is still looking for the book with the hope of finding it.
Oh man this makes me think of a 90s TV show when they created Utopia in a small City they had to put everyone's sadness feel in all the bad emotions into one person sometimes that one person was a child they would feel the pain of everyone would feel what everyone else got to be happy everyone knew about this and it was okay with it
Am I the only one that thinks the 'Brief Stay in Hell' one sounds like a pretty great afterlife? Forget digging around for your own book, just meander the stacks reading any one that catches your eye. Bradbury is my favorite author, I've had the privilege of meeting him. Soft Rains seems eerily prescient... but a lot of his work is.
A dream for those of us who love biographies. It would be awesome to spend a lifetime reading about other people's lives while trying to find your own, and when you do, you'll probably find you've got more in common with people than you think 🙂
Read the story, and you'll realize it isn't so great. The library has every possible book that can be written of a certain length, i.e. every possible combination of letters for some length like 400 pages. That means any book you pull off a shelf will almost certain to be complete gibberish.
Anybody think that Library of Babel is very close in concept to the internet and maybe Dead Internet Theory? With almost all of the knowledge in the world, there is just as much, if not more, slop to muddy the waters of good information to hide the truth instead of reveal it?
1:58 if anything there are so many niche religions and the real one could be from an isolated tribe somewhere in the Amazon worshipping a mcdonalds quarter pounder wrapper
@HarmonicHippolets say one of Them want sun to Rise and The Ather Not what you Think Gonna Happend! ... Their is only one God and it cant not be a Human ! Where is your brain ?? Because you Dont Think Rationally
I saw a whole You Tube book summary of All Tomorrows, the details in that book becomes crazier and disturbing as it goes. As it ends, leaves a cliffhanger about earth😮
Honestly, the ones who walk away from omelas is the least disturbing and dark out of these stories, because instead of leaving you horrified, it leaves you sad and wondering what would you do. Both the people who staid and who leaved have justification for their actions, the people who stayed justified there actions by thinking about their friends, family and people who they have grown to love, this city has provided everything to them for having a perfectly contempt lives, and can they scarifice everything for just this one child, can they survive the guilt after they tell there family that their happy lives will no longer be, that they have to sacrifice their happiness for this one random child. And the people who leaved thought they had done the right thing because their happiness was causing suffering to the people who didnt diserve it. That their happy festivals full of smiling boys and girls along with lovely music was all happening at the cost of a young boys suffering who didnt deserve it. If they stayed and allowed this, will their happiness be deserved, will they still stay happy while the guilt and regret of seeing the child suffer because of their own selfish reason. They choose the righteous path which hurt the least amount of people. Notice how nobody chooses to help the child, not even the people who leaved. Because the people who left knew that many people of Omelas didnt deserved their happy lives taken away from them. Think about the rest of the children, who barely understand whats going on, think qbout the unborn still in their mothers womb, who have no say in this matter, dont they deserve happy live. Think the people who helped their community and never did anything wrong, dont they deserve to rest in peace because of their virtuous acts. Yes, the people who are choosing to stay are in some perspectives are atleast a little bit selfish, but nobody is perfect in this world. Who is to judge a soldier killing as a bystander as if they themselves wouldnt have cracked under the pressure of war and practiced violence themselves. Who are they to judge while they are flawed men themselves. If stooping the childs suffering only ment the happiness of an individuals happiness to vanish, it would have been a lot easier. And even if they may not get that same level of happiness ever again and start suffering for the first time in their Iives, they still would have the peace of mind that they chosse the option which caused the least amount of suffering, and who knows, maybe they will find another omelas that didnt run on somebody suffering, who knows. Its an interesting story where both the sides have their fair share of arguments and what you feel is up to your interpretation.
@killerhound363well for starters, almost none of the posthumans were allowed to keep their intelegence, the modular people are actually intelegent and are decendents of the colonials, and the star people were made AFTER the Earth-Mars civil war, and they modified themselves to limmit the amount of differences between the two races.
Glad Short Stay in Hell was mentioned. Local Oklahoma resident authored it and was featured in my local bookstore. And NO, it's never explicitly stated that he found his book or escaped.
The story of Omelas could be even darker and more tragic if inflicting extra suffering upon the child would generate even more happiness to the city and its people. This is my first time hearing of this short story, but the concept really reaonates with me given how little I value myself and wonder if my own suffering in life can make the lives of others better as if there is a finite amount of that kind of joy or peace in the world.
What got me about the people of Omelas is why they just didn't all join forces with each other and work as a united group to set the child free. I guess the authoress was trying to prove a point about humanity, that perhaps ignorance is bliss if you're already living in bliss. Why spoil it for the sake of one abused and miserable little child kept in appalling conditions? Think I would have walked away too. Even though it's a very short story, it raises a lot of questions
They werent willing to sacrifice all the other ppl. The ones who walked were not neccessarily perfectly moral people. They werent ant more willing to sacrifice the groups happiness for 1 child than anyone else. They just didnt want to benefit from it themselves.
The suffering of one in trade for the happiness of others say cure cancer an all disease sounds great and even karmatic equality. Course unless you're the one thats suffering!
The ones who walk away is my personal favorite my opinion and thought process is if an innocent has to suffer for the rest to be "happy" and the rest are aware of it, deep down are they really going to be content with it? More like that perfect utopia image just got shattered, I'd rather have the kid not suffer to maintain some bs illusion to were people lie to themselves. Sadly I'd be the dude to get taken out or exiled because people would rather live with a comfortable lie. I like this story the best tell me how you'd react to a situation like this and I'll tell you the type of person you are.
Yeah, we don't see him leave, he just keeps going. Though at one point, in the friendly rules posted by the Demons, they point out that eventually you will find it and that there will be a point in your existence where you can look back on this experience.
Infinite space can exist, having finite matter. Think about standing on the line of a circle, small enough for you to see it fully, trace it out even. Expand the line of that circle, and at some point, it is no longer a circle, but a straight line. Travel that line for as long as you can, and you'll only ever see, an infinite straight line. Not that you're wrong, really. However, if you were to make the matter infinite, you are faced with those repeating sequences, patterns, duplicates, whatever. Playing devil's advocate, in that scenario, you will face an incomprehensible number of repeats, making infinite, infinitely more eternal.
The first story breaks its own rule. Knowing the child is suffering would cause their own suffering. It's an impossible situation. You can't have it both ways.
but it's not as good as it sounds, it takes him eternity to find a book, imagine the psychological torture and pressure and all that, and the worst thing is frekin hoping that yea I'd find it soon I mean it might not have sounded so bad in my retelling, but if u read the story, you'd understand what I mean 😓
@de_explainerrI mean but you can read other peoples books , like Michelle jakson marlin Monroe Nelson Mandela, Diana Princess , and many more, you can read a life of your old crush or about a brave king in the past
12:52 "Truth exists, but it's buried under infinite noise" what an incredibly raw-ass line
The messed up thing about The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas is when you compare it to reality and realize that our reality is so much worse and is built on so much more suffering of the most vulnerable among us.
and even with all of that, society is far from perfect
Reminds me of the story of Jesus.
-An atheist
I was on the leading edge of tech, now I'm getting 5 acres and a drawbridge. I guess that's walking away.
rich vs poor.
Evil vs Good
Power vs powerless
They used this story for a episode of Star Trek SNW.
The Library of Babel was written by Jorge Borges, one of my favorite writers. You didn’t mention his name which is why I mention it here. He specialized in mystical realism and I highly recommend all of his work
Ok loser 😂
That one is mathematically flawed, though. It is ignoring the paradox of a simple paper with two phrases on it. One would be the statement on other side is true, and the one on the other side would be the statement on the other side is false. The solution is no system, no matter how big, can contain it's own description. That's why there are different levels of infinity.
it would be irrelevant since there would be a book that could explain which statement is true or if the book should not be considered as true. The book would only allow you to understand the gibberish
6:05 oh hell nah, ts takes place this year lol
yep august 2026
That's my birthday too
@randwelvillegas4649the world's balance shifted when you were born
@randwelvillegas4649 fulfill the prophecy burn your house
What is crazy is that smart home technology isn’t a far off into the future tech anymore. Some billionaire mansions already have at least 50 % of that tech level at their homes already.
Dude, There Will Come Soft Rains is like one of the best short stories of all time. I read it when I was like eight or nine, and have been in love with it ever since. Peak lineup, that, Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, and All Tomorrows are all peak. I haven't read the others. Truly a peak video.
absolutely agree it’s one of those stories that really hits yea especially that ending. bradbury was on another level
@de_explainerr
It mentions the year 2026 and that messes me up for reasons i don’t understand.
BELIEVE IN CHRIST NOW BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE
JOHN 3:16 FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY SON THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE
That's nothing. Wait till you see the movie Chubby Rain
So, what was the narrative purpose of the fire at the end? Based on the video I thought the story was about the world moving on even after humans are gone. But the house is destroyed by complete random chance, and as such stops moving forward? I don't get it
All Tomorrows is fantastic, but it isn't horrifying at all when you realize the whole premise is that it's written by a future alien historian who knows nothing about ancient humanity to the point where he doesn't know which way to hold a skull up
The Library of Babel is essentially what the internet is becoming since the advent of generative AI...
You read my mind....
Shit you are right… and we must undoubtedly separate both before it is too late and we are unable to tell what’s recorded, transferred, and 100% made by humans or machines. Remember those who control the narrative. Control everything.
@esesolox3_EM3TEKsadly we are in the losing side...and we will always be because we don't care about it...we became the slop generation
"Those who walk away from Omelas" sounds like a short description of Psycho-Pass
yeah that comparison actually makes a lot of sense 🤔
omelas=salem.o.
The child in Omelas reminds me of Emiya from Fate/Stay Night. Emiya’s motives in the 5th grail war r essentially an attempt to prevent his past self from becoming a counter-guardian, which can easily be compared to the situation of the Omelas child, in regards to how their suffering is responsible for humanity’s survival.
@JordanBaby-ez6kyomeyas child is barely sentient, is dumb not the frankestein monster
@baila3221 omelas is also las ome. or “the omes”. what does this mean? absolutely nothing 🤯🧠🧠💯💯
All tomorrows is insane!
The flesh wall is crazy. They are SENTIENT yet immobile and mute. Their culture and history are built in silence and pondering.
@MoridaFanadierthis video got it wrong tho. The construct people became the modular people after the aliens left. The book has many evolutionary phases for each new human species. The tool people were the last evolutionary step for the water people at the beginning and the modular people the last step for the flesh wall, they attached themselves on their own, not because of the aliens.
He basically was wrong on at least 50 percent of the content though
@MoridaFanadier its clever. The author is a paleontologist/artist, and it reflect the fact many planets- including earth- start off wirh a floura of organisms that are known as germs.
Before actual animals, our planet had "colonies" parasites, fungi, bacteria, and (eventually) viruses
@nuez-m1hespecially fungi. Literally our planet was once heavily terraformed into far more habitable era by giant fungis.
0:47 don’t care let’s party guys
yeah
Damn you're cold hearted man you really are
Yup.
Who's bringing beer gang?
@JohncarlosAndrei mmmh not you for sure, i'll bring wine champagne and whisky, beer is too "50 years old bald man" giving
We got six months until the automated house burns down
yeah let's just enjoy our time, ahh only god knows 😮💨
Why so?
@rpjoca4644In the story, the house burns down exactly on August 5, 2026
real
I just want to tell you to please keep making these videos, because of you i got addicted to books and started reading as well and wanna thank you for that
thansk man, first of all that's a good thing, like seriously means a lot to me nd also people should know about books like all tomorrows and ones who walk away from Omelas even if they're not into reading ,n also the plots are just so so interesting what can I even say like books like short stay in hell these kinda gives u like a whole new different perspectives and experience like these stuff are dope I know these could be boring psychologica horror for these who read even more extreme stuff but these are great ones too
“Humans spreads across the galaxy and then everything goes wrong “ …is the words that describes our existence 😅
Hahaha
hahahahaha
Nihilistic trash.
How ? What do humans compare us to always when talking like this ? It’s only ‘wrong’ by our measures
"spreading" across the galaxy but it ends up dilluting the homo sapiens gene pool
All Tomorrow needs a movie directed by Cronenberg
A short stay In Hell has completely changed my life. I cannot for the life of my explain exactly how, but I just know that I was a different, and stronger person. My god.
I was amazed at how a short book made me laugh, cry, feel despair and hope. It is really a changing read.
Tho, if I remember correctly, we never get the narrator leaving, right? Doesn't the story end with him hopeful but used to the eternity?
@renatolfigyea unfortunately the retelling in the video is all wrong. The library and number of books aren't infinite, if I remember correctly no one besides Soren actually finds a book close to their life story, and in the end Soren mentions having found a book retelling his life story, but it has some inaccuracies and he doesn't know if it will suffice.
@cyrain3843Exactly.
I had a similar catharsis when I used the bathroom after eating 13 beef and cheese enchiladas.
@cyrain3843the book even clearly stated the library isn't infinite which imo makes it even more disturbing
"There will come soft rains" was apparantly so good that USSR made a short animated movie based on that novel
Yup, I remember seeing it on RUclips ages ago
I remember looking around for an audiobook to fall asleep to, and came across All Tomorrows. Ended up staying awake for the entirety of the book. It was such an incredible experience listening to the book
5:00 "I spent the first ten years trying to keep the floors waxed, but nothing gets out nuclear fallout from vinyl wood. Nothing!"
"And the car! The car! How do you polish rust?" -codsworth fallout 4.
I keep watching these not realizing they were posted a few minutes ago
The child in Omelas is a plot point used in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 very effectively! The story of that game is incredible and mystery/worldbuilding/reveals are so good.
hmm really, i didn’t know that. gonna check it out, thanks for mentioning it
I haven't played the game... Now I feel as if I came across a spoiler alert that makes me NOT wanna play it now (sorry, but there was a reason the 1930s Wizard of Oz movie was made saccharine sweet and colorful: THE GREAT DEPRESSION). I need an escape from reality, not a reminder that humanity's cooked.
@TheFatChicck so you need to do nothing and distract other people from doing something by talking angrily about it?
@TheFatChicckSo you learn about one thing, makes you not want to play it? Wow.
Use spoilers as a good thing. It makes your life FAR better.
@fireblade295 it’s not really even a spoiler to be honest. I didn’t specify where it was detailed or how. Also, it’s so hard to predict or fathom in what way it’s possibly even tied to the plot as you play thru it. Nor is it a 1 to 1 usage of the device. It’s simply inspired by it in one part of a story that has many many parts.
All Tomorrows is one of my favorite stories I've found from the internet. It's truly fascinating.
All tomorrow is my nightmare
There is a website which serves as a recreation of the library of babel(ofcourse it is digital)
I read the first story as "The ones who walk away from Oatmeals" ☠️
He'd definitely die of starvation lol
2:16 hmm sounds like a certain Library in the city
Didn't expect that i would have a fellow sleeper agent around here
All tomorrows?talk about horror, couldn't sleep for days
Softy 😂
@user-yp7ke4et7omaybe I am
nah bro, not softy, it's actually very messed up, especially reading at night 😅
Yeah but unfortunately I'm the kind of person who can't look away cuz it's too fascinating you know@de_explainerr
@de_explainerr yet you people sleep like a baby after knowing what happening in gaza 😂 and It's not even fiction.
All Tomorrows is both outstanding, entertaining, and absolutely horrific in so many ways and that’s not even including the very end
It's even cathartic when more obscure and forgotten subspecies of humans make contact with the more advanced civilitazions and all decide to take revenge in The Qs
The lore given for all tomorrows here is incorrect
You got quite a few informations wrong on all tomorrows, the only one i came here for. But still good enough vid
My answer to the question in Ones who walk away from Omela is most humans won't feel "happy" if they know a child is being abused, so no-one in omelas actually feels happy, they just don't want to lose their situation.
I feel that if enough people left, they’d come back in attempts to free the abused child. Basically a “resistance”.
@curious1053shut up .If I was the leader of those people first I would imagined the omela as perfect what good people think which is filled with justice,good happyneds(not pleasure but good one that good people want),love,kind a total utopia ,heaven .Like god himself made it .Then the child who was abused and captured would be Satan if not then the omela world is worthless thens it like loving on satans magic Island or dealing with Satan which way shouldnt . Logically truth will always prevail even after lots of torture and suffering but goodness is eternal
this is the first time hes actually explaining more abt all tommorows and its like dang because i didnt know that the lore was rlly that deep
2:05 basically the midnight library
That book SUUUUCKED
Am I the only one that thinks that that library sounds amazing, and who would totally read every book rather than look for my own?
rip random ultramarine at 8:01
The Emperor protects
my family friend wrote A Short Stay in Hell!!!! Steve Peck is a very cool guy, i’m so happy to know his work is well beloved!!!
Broski that was not the ending of A Short Stay in Hell
"All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury wrecked me.
The ending to that story made me so mad
That first one reminds me of current world events
In "A Short Stay in Hell", he doesn't find his book. That's what makes it so haunting; the thought of being in search of it for eternity.
I read all tomorrow..... Might recomended it ::3
The martian-earth war happened BEFORE the evolution of the Star People. In fact, the Star People came about to ensure no such genocide would happen ever again.
7:27 the first extrasolar war from the game killzone. Mars is helghan
👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐EXCELLENT WORK. THANK YOU
ursula ke le guin also wrote the earthsea novels keep up the great work
yeah I'll make on tombs of Atuan and also wizard of earthsea, hope u enjoyed this one 😊❤
The whole concept of the Screwfly solution is absolutely disturbing. My gosh, I hate it so much.
I'm glad I came across this video. I knew the first story, I forgot it's name. It is very relevant after the file release.
Humans are the Qu but for animals, dont forget how we adjusted some animals and plants genetics just to fit us
Top quality content! I really enjoyed your narration of the six narratives! Keep up the good work
This video left me speechless if you ask me what I think of these stories I can't say anything but even though I want to, it's the most annoying feeling I ever felt
Cool video.
I'll watch Pippa now.
❤ thanks for the video 🎉❤❤❤
I love All tomorrows. It's a modern masterpiece.
Amazing video
I read The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas at 14, after seeing someone recommend it online. I'm 28 now, and I still remember it from time to time and a sense of dread washes over me. I've only read it once more in these fourteen years and it was just as bad as I remembered, I cried just as much. But I have the clear memory of showing the short story to my mom and a few friends some years after, once I was mature enough, thinking they'd share the sentiment, but they just told me they didn't find it that unsettling. If I were in the story, I'd definitely be one of those who'd end up walking away.
Oh! I remember reading there will come soft rains when I was a child. It was in our Class 6 English book, though only a small part. It didn't feel like psycological horror but I did feel really sad for the poor house.
In the book "short stay in hell" the library isn't infinite, its just huge. Also the story is left with a bleak ending and the main character is still looking for the book with the hope of finding it.
The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin is a great book
Oh man this makes me think of a 90s TV show when they created Utopia in a small City they had to put everyone's sadness feel in all the bad emotions into one person sometimes that one person was a child they would feel the pain of everyone would feel what everyone else got to be happy everyone knew about this and it was okay with it
Omelas has haunted me since I first read it in 1987. 😢
The Ones who walks away from Omelas kinda reminds me of The Giver
6:05 guys the date guys look at the date
Yeah well to be fair with how Trump is acting…
Yes everyone remember the date August 2026 💀
Tbf the book was published in 1950, but still, I'm not too confident about the future :/
First thing I noticed too!
Yikes 😅
A Short Stay in Hell... Okay I need to read that!
I read There Will Come Soft Rains in middle school
Am I the only one that thinks the 'Brief Stay in Hell' one sounds like a pretty great afterlife? Forget digging around for your own book, just meander the stacks reading any one that catches your eye.
Bradbury is my favorite author, I've had the privilege of meeting him. Soft Rains seems eerily prescient... but a lot of his work is.
A dream for those of us who love biographies. It would be awesome to spend a lifetime reading about other people's lives while trying to find your own, and when you do, you'll probably find you've got more in common with people than you think 🙂
Read the story, and you'll realize it isn't so great. The library has every possible book that can be written of a certain length, i.e. every possible combination of letters for some length like 400 pages. That means any book you pull off a shelf will almost certain to be complete gibberish.
Anybody think that Library of Babel is very close in concept to the internet and maybe Dead Internet Theory? With almost all of the knowledge in the world, there is just as much, if not more, slop to muddy the waters of good information to hide the truth instead of reveal it?
Now with the Epstein scandal being suppressed through disinformation we'll see more of that.
Under 14 minutes feel illegal.
The video is 18:11 ?
first book reminded me of Agra maynu story somehow
I've seen The Screwfly Solution movie. The movie is unintentionally comical in several scenes.
Do ‘the veldt’ next
1:58 if anything there are so many niche religions and the real one could be from an isolated tribe somewhere in the Amazon worshipping a mcdonalds quarter pounder wrapper
Islam is The correct Theyr is only one God Allah ...Not Three ! And of course not Hundreds of Them As Hunduisim say ...
@Z@ZeinebouMed-m4nristians believe in one God that is three persons. Do not misrepresent Christian’s beliefs and repent and come to Jesus
@HarmonicHippolets say one of Them want sun to Rise and The Ather Not what you Think Gonna Happend! ... Their is only one God and it cant not be a Human ! Where is your brain ?? Because you Dont Think Rationally
The short stay in hell is literally what my character goes through.
I saw a whole You Tube book summary of All Tomorrows, the details in that book becomes crazier and disturbing as it goes. As it ends, leaves a cliffhanger about earth😮
Thanks for the video.
U r very welcome glad u liked it :)
That would be my heaven, so no I wouldn’t leave lolz 2:44
same. infine knowledge AND you get to see other people. perfect.
@anekdoche7055yass also you can find any book, you’ll never be bored :3
That first one messed up
Why does omelas look like it would lose its joy fast if it exist
All Tomorrows is a Favorite
Honestly, the ones who walk away from omelas is the least disturbing and dark out of these stories, because instead of leaving you horrified, it leaves you sad and wondering what would you do. Both the people who staid and who leaved have justification for their actions, the people who stayed justified there actions by thinking about their friends, family and people who they have grown to love, this city has provided everything to them for having a perfectly contempt lives, and can they scarifice everything for just this one child, can they survive the guilt after they tell there family that their happy lives will no longer be, that they have to sacrifice their happiness for this one random child. And the people who leaved thought they had done the right thing because their happiness was causing suffering to the people who didnt diserve it. That their happy festivals full of smiling boys and girls along with lovely music was all happening at the cost of a young boys suffering who didnt deserve it. If they stayed and allowed this, will their happiness be deserved, will they still stay happy while the guilt and regret of seeing the child suffer because of their own selfish reason. They choose the righteous path which hurt the least amount of people. Notice how nobody chooses to help the child, not even the people who leaved. Because the people who left knew that many people of Omelas didnt deserved their happy lives taken away from them. Think about the rest of the children, who barely understand whats going on, think qbout the unborn still in their mothers womb, who have no say in this matter, dont they deserve happy live. Think the people who helped their community and never did anything wrong, dont they deserve to rest in peace because of their virtuous acts. Yes, the people who are choosing to stay are in some perspectives are atleast a little bit selfish, but nobody is perfect in this world. Who is to judge a soldier killing as a bystander as if they themselves wouldnt have cracked under the pressure of war and practiced violence themselves. Who are they to judge while they are flawed men themselves. If stooping the childs suffering only ment the happiness of an individuals happiness to vanish, it would have been a lot easier. And even if they may not get that same level of happiness ever again and start suffering for the first time in their Iives, they still would have the peace of mind that they chosse the option which caused the least amount of suffering, and who knows, maybe they will find another omelas that didnt run on somebody suffering, who knows. Its an interesting story where both the sides have their fair share of arguments and what you feel is up to your interpretation.
Well, the hurt child isnt specifically a boy.
I like that the only pictures of Omelas are medieval
The amountof inaccuracys in thealltomorrows chapter is killing me
Ooh like what?
@killerhound363well for starters, almost none of the posthumans were allowed to keep their intelegence, the modular people are actually intelegent and are decendents of the colonials, and the star people were made AFTER the Earth-Mars civil war, and they modified themselves to limmit the amount of differences between the two races.
@BOKy12345 yeah I just looked the story up it's only 100 or so pages sounds packed. Might read
10:13 no thats not how it was
Codsworth from Fallout 4 must have been inspired by "There will come Soft Rains"
Glad Short Stay in Hell was mentioned. Local Oklahoma resident authored it and was featured in my local bookstore. And NO, it's never explicitly stated that he found his book or escaped.
August 5 ,2026! but today is January 18 ,2026~ 7 months to go~
I am almost sure Ray Bradbury was a psychic and we are just waiting for this to happen.
But in the story nothing happens on that day really. The nuclear holocaust has already happened.
@ilikenicebiscuitsI would say it’s the true end of humanity, because the house is the last of our legacy
@ganyynaybut it’s just a random day after our extermination so it doesn’t really signify anything.
The story of Omelas could be even darker and more tragic if inflicting extra suffering upon the child would generate even more happiness to the city and its people.
This is my first time hearing of this short story, but the concept really reaonates with me given how little I value myself and wonder if my own suffering in life can make the lives of others better as if there is a finite amount of that kind of joy or peace in the world.
The first one is similiar like the village of iruburru from anime made in abyss
What got me about the people of Omelas is why they just didn't all join forces with each other and work as a united group to set the child free. I guess the authoress was trying to prove a point about humanity, that perhaps ignorance is bliss if you're already living in bliss. Why spoil it for the sake of one abused and miserable little child kept in appalling conditions? Think I would have walked away too.
Even though it's a very short story, it raises a lot of questions
They werent willing to sacrifice all the other ppl. The ones who walked were not neccessarily perfectly moral people. They werent ant more willing to sacrifice the groups happiness for 1 child than anyone else. They just didnt want to benefit from it themselves.
Library? Blue haired robot? Grade 9 fixer?
That's that and this is this.
Star of the city
The suffering of one in trade for the happiness of others say cure cancer an all disease sounds great and even karmatic equality. Course unless you're the one thats suffering!
People in 2026 cam understand the walk away 1:45
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Bool one explans our system we live in @seeeMACRONIE
How so?
I just look at the time line, see that All Tomorrows is over half the time and think "Yeah that checks out"
The ones who walk away is my personal favorite my opinion and thought process is if an innocent has to suffer for the rest to be "happy" and the rest are aware of it, deep down are they really going to be content with it? More like that perfect utopia image just got shattered, I'd rather have the kid not suffer to maintain some bs illusion to were people lie to themselves. Sadly I'd be the dude to get taken out or exiled because people would rather live with a comfortable lie. I like this story the best tell me how you'd react to a situation like this and I'll tell you the type of person you are.
The number of books in a short stay is hell is finite but far too large a number to comprehend, not infinite.
These "explainer" channels are all ai generated so they are always full of mistakes
A short stay in hell does not end like that.
Yeah, we don't see him leave, he just keeps going. Though at one point, in the friendly rules posted by the Demons, they point out that eventually you will find it and that there will be a point in your existence where you can look back on this experience.
The first story is by Ursula K. Le Guin, she wrote many great science fiction stories.
Infinite libraries either can't be infinite or should have repeating books as number of possible books is limited
Infinite space can exist, having finite matter. Think about standing on the line of a circle, small enough for you to see it fully, trace it out even. Expand the line of that circle, and at some point, it is no longer a circle, but a straight line. Travel that line for as long as you can, and you'll only ever see, an infinite straight line. Not that you're wrong, really. However, if you were to make the matter infinite, you are faced with those repeating sequences, patterns, duplicates, whatever. Playing devil's advocate, in that scenario, you will face an incomprehensible number of repeats, making infinite, infinitely more eternal.
@ClaytonCreatureJ i mean it potentially can be looped but I don't think that's what author originally thought, probably, idk
The first story breaks its own rule. Knowing the child is suffering would cause their own suffering. It's an impossible situation. You can't have it both ways.
The library of babel just explains religion
Hell is a library? Hell yes I am in yessss🎉🎉🎉
but it's not as good as it sounds, it takes him eternity to find a book, imagine the psychological torture and pressure and all that, and the worst thing is frekin hoping that yea I'd find it soon I mean it might not have sounded so bad in my retelling, but if u read the story, you'd understand what I mean 😓
@de_explainerrI mean but you can read other peoples books , like Michelle jakson marlin Monroe Nelson Mandela, Diana Princess , and many more, you can read a life of your old crush or about a brave king in the past
@de_explainerr yeah, but if you are saying then I believe your words, I mean it's just a tip of the iceberg ❤ and love your videos man keep it up
@ayushitiwari4245 Or you could find one of the 7 billion average Joes in the universw
1:20 2026 DBC wuz here ✌️🪂💸✈️
Who tf are you
All tomorrow started as gundam and ended as wyf was that even