Octavia Butler's prophetic voice

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Octavia Butler's prophetic voice

Steve Smith

Octavia Butler died abruptly 15 years ago with only two books of her multipart "Parable" (or more commonly Earthseed) series completed.   She was an incredibly deep and perceptive thinker about social issues across many domains (authoritarian movements, social justice, climate change, etc.) which have come to be central to our lives decades later.

Parable of the Talents

Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be lied to.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.



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