3.29.16 What we will need

"I think hard times are coming,” Le Guin said into the microphone after accepting the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, “when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies, to other ways of being.” In what was one of very few National Book Awards speeches to go viral, Le Guin uttered one line in particular, “We will need writers who can remember freedom,”