Assignment

• Read
  • “Tower of Babylon” by Ted Chiang
  • “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula Le Guin

Background

• N/A

Agenda/Logistics

• Pushing back last meeting from July 11 to July 18
• SF Picnic! Come through!

Questions

• N/A

Attendees

• Varun
• Micah
• Alina
• Alejandro
• Spencer

Discussion Notes

References

• “Raw Lore” by Venkatesh Rao, which explains the many rationales that people have about recycling. Similar lines of thinking are used when trying to explain whether change should be done at a systemic/individual level, re: Omelas (or whether one should just… exit).
• Okja by Bong Joon-Ho, a speculative fiction movie on the meat industry
• Spencer’s essay on the dissonance manifesting in Salesforce Park (and in San Francisco, more generally)