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I'm wondering if Parable of the Sower will eventually develop a plot or continue to be a succession of horrible things happening.
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I've reached 2025 in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and I'm already starting to suspect that this book will be no fun.
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I just found out about Highly Sensitive People and I totally relate. My skin is sensitive- I’m allergic to fragrances and acne-prone. My eyes are sensitive- almost always wearing sunglasses. My hearing is sensitive- live music and other loud sounds are not pleasurable.
This also led me to self identifying as an ‘empath’, which sounds cooler than it is. It should really be called hyper-empathy syndrome, as described in the book, The Parable of the Sower.
Anyone else relate?
#hsp #highlysensitiveperson #psychology #empath #parableofthesower #bookstodon #book
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/highly-sensitive-person
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@hannu_ikonen How did you miss Octavia Butler's book Parable of the Sower in this list?
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I'm reading "A Conversation with Octavia E. Butler", included at the end of of "Parable of the Sower", Grand Central pubs, 2023 paperback edition.
It is an excellent read. She muses about where our current trends might take us. I wanted to share this one sentence - and bear in mind, Butler died in 2006.
"I imagined the United States becoming, slowly, through the combined effects of lack of foresight and short-term unenlightened self-interest, a third world country."
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My gods, this book!
"Embrace diversity.
Unite--
Or be divided,
robbed,
ruled,
killed
By those who see you as prey.
Embrace diversity
Or be destroyed."Chapter preface, Chapter 17
Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler#ParableOfTheSower
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#OctaviaButler
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"I've noticed that people who have a little bit of power tend to use it."
The Parable of the Sower, pg 122.
Octavia Butler#BlackHistoryMonth
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HT @susurros
What #OctaviaButler saw on Feb. 1, 2025, three decades agoby Russell Contreras
Science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote in her 1993 novel "#ParableOfTheSower" that Feb. 1, 2025, would be a time of #fires, #violence, #racism, #addiction, #ClimateChange, social #inequality and an authoritarian "#PresidentDonner."
That day is today.
The big picture: This Black History Month, which begins this year on a day of Butler's dystopian vision, Axios will examine what the next 25 years may hold for Black Americans based on the progress in the first quarter of this century.
Through her fiction, Butler foresaw U.S. society's direction and the potential for civil societies to collapse thanks to the weight of economic disparities and climate change — with blueprints for hope.
#Afrofuturist writers today interpret Butler's work as metaphorical warnings that appear to be coming true and a call to action.State of play: This year, the month-long celebration of Black American accomplishments and perseverance will be commemorated amid uncertainty after the Trump administration ordered government agencies to end DEI policies.
The move is confusing some agencies on whether Black history can even be acknowledged this year while the nation deals with rising hate crimes, the aftermath of California wildfires, a fentanyl epidemic and a new president who blames the country's ills on workforce diversity.
Meanwhile, states like Alabama have passed bills limiting the discussion of race and Black history in public schools.Zoom in: In "Parable of the Sower," the novel's 15-year-old protagonist, Lauren Olamina, writes a simple journal entry: Saturday, February 1, 2025: "We had a fire today. People worry so much about fire."
What unfolds in the pages that follow is a dystopian world surrounding the gated, racially mixed, fictional community of Robledo, California.
A new drug forces addicts to set fires to communities, who then rob and rape victims. Unhoused people roam the streets and are forced to steal to survive. Hurricanes, fires and violence push Americans to flee north to Canada.
President Donner, like President Trump, promises to restore the country to its former glory.
Racially mixed couples, like Olamina's Black/Chicano family, are vulnerable to attacks, and her parents, both PhD holders, have limited job opportunities.Yes, but: Black, white, Latino and Asian Americans fall in love despite the racism outside the walls.
They arm themselves and protect each other.
They share history and books in defiance of attempted erasure.What they're saying: "She was trying to warn us of a possible future that she saw coming if we did not change," Jesse Holland, editor of the anthology, "Captain America: The Shield of Sam Wilson," tells Axios.
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/01/octavia-butler-feb-1-2025-black-history-month
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Axios: What Octavia Butler saw on Feb. 1, 2025, three decades ago https://www.axios.com/2025/02/01/octavia-butler-feb-1-2025-black-history-month #BlackHistoryMonth #SciFi #OctaviaButler #ParableOfTheSower
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I am on page 21 of Parable of the Sower (Octavia Butler), and I am stunned.
It's like she's right here talking about today's political personalities mismanaging todays problems.
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From #ParableoftheSower to #VforVendetta, A Succinct #Syllabus for the #Revolution
A short list of #books, #movies, and #games to foster #solidarity in the face of extreme #opposition.
https://www.them.us/story/parable-of-the-sower-v-for-vendetta-radical-syllabus-books-movies-games
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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.
@bookstodon @books @religion #sciencefiction #space #ChristianSciFi #AmWritingSF #secretscifinetwork #ProfessorK #OctaviaButler #ParableOfTheSower #ParableOfTheTalents
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Octavia Butler's 1993 novel, "Parable of the Sower" describes a fictional suburb of Los Angeles as "a struggling walled suburb... besieged by severe drought; class wars; violent, fire-setting scavengers; and a long-embattled population seized by political apathy.” In its 1998 sequel, "Parable of the Talents," a candidate runs using the slogan "Make America Great Again." Butler, who died in 2006, wasn't clairvoyant and pooh-poohed that idea. She was a student of history. Here's @TeenVogue's story about the prescience of her writings and those of Marxist historian Mike Davis.
#History @histodons #Literature #Books @bookstodon #ParableOfTheSower #OctaviaButler
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Burning down Octavia Butler's house was really on the nose.
#ParableOfTheSower #OctaviaButler #ClimateCrisis #LAWildfires #EatonFire
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The L.A. Public Library commissioned me and a writing team to adapt Octavia E. Butler's the Parable of the Sower into a Fate RPG. We're running portions of it at the Octavia Lab at the LAPL Central Branch in DTLA on 12/14! If you're a fan of the novel or Fate, sign up and roll dice with us!
Learn more at https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/journey-earthseed-tabletop-roleplay-campaign-octavia-e-butlers-parable-universe
RSVP to [email protected]
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@drahsturgis When #speculativefiction becomes reality!!! Not a good time to be reading Octavia E. Butler's #ParableOfTheSower in light of the American election but extreme #poverty, #racism, debt #slavery, #violence, #climateBreakdown, #water commodification, #literacy, etc. highlighted in this 1993 #book set in 2024-2027 are all about to be ramped-up. #Canada may not be an option given what is happening here too. Just sayin'....
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Today seems like a good day to consult #OctaviaEButler's prescient wisdom again. #ParableOfTheSower #ParableOfTheTalents #SFF #Books
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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.
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From the article about #ParableOfTheSower
Without adaptability, what remains may be channeled into destructive fanaticism. Without positive obsession, there is nothing at all,” Butler writes on the first page of the book right below the year, 2024.
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The future is as yet unwritten, no matter what it looks like right now - and let's be real, it doesnt look good. But as the saying goes, people are afraid to go back in time because a small thing might change the past, but we don't apply that knowledge to the actions we take now. We should. We have to.
Be fully grandiose in your thinking about both the dangers AND the possibilities. What if it IS possible for us to have a bright future? What if it IS possible for us to get out from under these bullshit systems? What if we win?
The only difference between an amazing future and a horrible one is what we do right now. Act accordingly, darlings.
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It is July 20th, 2024.... eerie how the #ParableoftheSower by #OctaviaButler tells a tale that looks closer to the class divide, failing infrastructure, climate castraophe of today. At the time, many thought this #dystopian or #speculativefiction and believed we are changing for the better to overcome that path... its so odd to realize today is that day...
https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2024/07/18/butler-gen-z-parable-sower
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"Octavia E. Butler’s 1993 novel Parable of the Sower imagined a future in which California is inhospitable, weather is deadly, wealth disparities are vicious, and a presidential candidate may set the country back 100 years.
It all begins on July 20, 2024."
https://www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a61625840/the-parable-is-now/
#OctaviaKnew #OctaviaButler #ParableOfTheSower #Dystopia #DystopiaIsNow