28. for those who need a gateway to radical imagination
Wild Geese10 Jun 2025

28. for those who need a gateway to radical imagination

Reading is the powerful tool we have to unlock our imaginations. And right now, I believe it's time to use our imaginations to see a new world. Maybe one that's not dominated by "obsessive technologies," as Ursula K Le Guin so aptly put.


Resources Mentioned:

- American Library Association

- Full Speech: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Passionate Defense of Art over Profits

- Celine Nguyen's "No One Told Me About Proust"

- Carl Hendrick's Ultra-Processed Minds: The End of Deep Reading and What It Costs Us

- Rayne Fisher-Quann's Poser Ethics

-Museguided's Freedom’s Fragility, Democracy’s Decline

- Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Marie Brown


Timestamps:

00:00 intro

02:33 everyone is using chatgpt to cheat?

03:39 it's easier now than ever to seen as smart and interesting

05:45 Ursula K Le Guin's art versus profit motive

09:10 Literacy IS quality of life

11:17 Stop blaming students - this is a systemic issue

12:29 taste is formed through love

15:09 reading as resistance

20:45 public libraries are being defunded. Here's what we can do about it!

21:07 why you should care about libraries

22:11 All organizing is science fiction


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