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The Great Societies: Lowry’s “The Giver”
19 Dec 2025 Episode 6.20 - The Great Societies: Lowry's The Giver Another thorny utopia, Lowry's Community practices a different kind of strategy to the Hideous Bargain: ethical evasion, a too tempting strategy for all of us. Political? Yes. But also a YA fantasy vision of what some of the latest writers and thinkers believe we're doing already. Texts from this episode: Lois Lowry, The Giver, 1993 Rabih Alameddine, Comforting Myths, 2024 Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, 2025 Complete Resources: https://waywordsstudio.com/project/le-guin-omelas/ CHAPTERS…
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