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I have to admit that during most of my reading, I've been doubting that whether Anarres, this whole utopia, is just a facade, a fake。 Cos one can obviously see here that even without pyramid governmental structure, there's some stronger bond upon human behaviors. A limitation. The syndics on Anarres don't govern persons, and claim that there're no goverments, no laws, but somehow the control exists. Cos human tendencies will always exist. When finances&laws no longer motivates a world, public opinions overweigh. After all, as long as we remain human, the innate cowardice of the human mind stays firmly within us. This is an invisible government, ruling through stifling the individual mind. Thus the cage follows. It's not even the persons that matter, but the cage. People go in it, being too naive&good-tempered to make any change, to do anything real. They come&go, the cage stays still. Then expulsion of the disagreeable is born. In a world without government, they're creating punishment, with which comes laws, and finally, power. But of course now i get that LeGuin showing us the flaws of Anarres, utopia, is actually to present us its values. Human tendencies can be obstacles, but her exact point was 'utopia is not to be perfect'. Surely some of humanity problems could be solved by improving social systems, but some will remain. Here i finally see her attempt, which is to demonstrate how an anarchist society would function in reality. Not something unattainable, but some pondering based on the flawed world we live in. Well, to be honest all these still seem to be a little confusing for me. As someone who read Orwell, Camus first, this society, this world Shevek desires seems to be too idealistic. But maybe that's the reason why we need it. The world we live in, frankly speaking, is one where people are deprived of initiative but replaced with external coercion, where individuals don't simply stand for themselves but for some power looming over them, where every member is just one unit of a massive machine. We don't understand, but we rarely truly complain. So yes, maybe i have difficulty to get into this story, into the freedom&solidarity that Anarres takes as the foundation. If there's one thing i learnt from this story is that how powerful an effort can be put upon people by a politics/economy structure. It shapes literally every aspect of our lives: aesthetics, philosophy, behaving patterns…The seed has been planted there long before any of us can possibly realize… But at least now i'm on the road, like Shevek, to the right course, hopefully. After all, good acts are not a locked cell, where things die down and start over, time and again. It's a journey, a process, which one sets off without ever stopping at anywhere in the middle. 'Work with time, not against it.' Process is all that matters, process is all we have. Thus everything counts, nothing wasted. Not even pain.