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George Orr dreams away racism. Try it another way


Doctor Haber finally gets patient George Orr to dream an effective dream.
Dream away racism, Dr. Haber ordere. Racism has kept humanity in the dark, has kept humanity behind...Dr. Haber correctly intones.

I didn't like the results. Everyone is of the same or similar racial/ethnic background, except that we all have gray skin and gray-white hair. We look like moving statues or zombies.

HOW WOULD I HAVE DONE IT IF I WAS THE DIRECTOR?

I was watching an old horror film and noticed the lovely biracial actress, Jennifer Beals, and then I received the inspiration.
Instead of spray painting the actors gray-skinned, I would spray a light tan on to the actors so that everyone has a very light tan or olive complexion. On the hit reality show, "Dancing With the Stars", all the contestants undergo the spray-on treatment to gain an instant tan and they show it being done.
I would have all the actors' hair dyed to a narrow range of brown to dark brown to almost black straightened hair. Everyone would have dark brown eyes and convenient colored contact lenses would do the trick. Now for any black actors, we'd have to do a reverse spray treatment.
This way, everyone would appear to be from similar ethnic backgrounds while maintaining some semblence of individuality without looking like a Grecian statue or a zombie.
The other alternative is to hire actors and actresses who are already brunettes with some similarity which would make it easier to begin with but would still require some minor skin color spray and colored contact lenses for anyone with light-colored eyes.
TRIVIA:
Scientific theory now claims all humanity originated with brown to dark brown eyes. The blue-eyed mutation appeared only eight-thousand years ago in the Black Sea area of today's Russia. The blue-eyed mutation was in itself harmless, but made the human recipient very attractive to other humans and subsequently the mutation spread rapidly throughout western, eastern, and northern Europe.

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The results of George's effective dream were supposed to be horrid, a purely utilitarian solution to Haber's request. What George dreamed the human race had nothing to do with our genetic makeup or our oldest traits. Its aesthetic unpleasantness was supposed to typify Haber's approach. It was the only thing George dreamed with which Haber was totally pleased.

§« The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters. »§

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Indeed, and this was in keeping with Le Guin's book. Haber congratulated George, but George couldn't find Heather after that dream and ends up dreaming her back with the help of the Alien in the Junque shop.

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Seems like he didn't dream away race, but rather pigmentation, which most people think is the basis for race (it's not).

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You have an excellent point and I should have known better, being an amateur historian.

Everyone only thinks in terms of race conflict as between white and black, because of all the race-baiting propaganda political correctness today.

Go back in history and you'll see some of the worst blood-letting and violence between people of the same skin color, the same or similar ethnic background.

Look at all the conflicts and wars among white Europeans. Read about all the horrifying tribal warfare in Africa that continues today. Go to Asia and read about the innumerable conflicts and wars among Asians.

It gets even better. Ancient and Middle Ages Germany were chock full of wars of German versus German. In Africa, Shaka the Zulu and his brutally efficient Zulu impiis annihilated countless enemy Africans. In old China there was an ethnic race war between Haaka Chinese and Punti Chinese. In old Japan, countless wars were fought between the Japanese.

Perhaps more people in the world have been killed by people of the same race, same skin color, similar ethnic background, instead of by people of other races.

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