Summary Of Le Guin's 'Keystone: An Economy Of Desperation'

For the last nineteen years I have been sleeping, breathing, and surviving in a world surrounded by confusion and uncertainty toward the importance of our environment to the individual; my subjective being is the first barrier breach, and from there I can try to express the insecurities, explanations, and concerns propagated by environmental degradation, so to call it. And with pleasure I wrote “Keystone: an Economy of Desperation” a premise that analyzes human behavior within our primordial environment, and our willingness to conscious accept unconscious as a mode of living uninterrupted by our own destruction, be it global or individual. The establishment of alien species named Zorgot within my story expresses a distance between the self

Environmental disaster can quickly become seen as a feature in the apocalyptic genre, but in my story from title to end, my story alludes to scientific realities as worth measure to understand the individual. Many allusions are made in “Keystone” about climate change, which is motif representing positive feedback loops having cascade effect of more disaster. Comparatively to “Vaster..Slow”, Le Guin uses the motif of interconnectedness within natural systems being vulnerable to negative inputs. It is not until Osden transcends to fulfill the forest that time is taken to honor nature, “silence and wind in leaves” (Guin 118). In the desert an individual will not be able to help reflecting upon the silence, invoking a powerful beauty to be projected through our environment; Osden found this fulfillment in nature. However before his transcendence, both Osden and the forest physically withered, emulating environmental strain upon a human-being. Climate change contends against individual wellness, so within my story the environment projects its stress onto the human character Tobin. Terrestrial carbon is primarily sequestered in the Boreal forest not the tropics, so I allude to the importance of the forest by remarking, “The final straw in cascading climate change when they too sold out natural justice”. This cascade effect is brought to climax society has has a vested interest in destruction since day one, so turn away from the corporate media who propagates sensationalized diversions for low society. Humans are very bad who burdens, often not capable of bearing the weight of societies destructive projections. Dually, my story and “The Fact of Blackness” converse about the black narrative, my story with less direct description, both having references to existentialism as motifs for their within narrative as the other. Fanon emulates the white perspective describing, “The discovery of the existence of a Negro civilization…confers no patent of humanity on me” (192). Existence of the negro is a man made construction thats as voluble as humankind believes it to be, yet high society has commits injustice toward the black human beings. Admiring Fanon’s style, I imitated the sentence composition of his description of the French boy calling the black man a animal, so Tobin became a monster who was sick. Furthermore, our stories share existentialist allusions, as perviously mentioned Fanon’s Jean-Pual Sarte quote, and my Waking Life film allusion. A vagabond on the rail tracks, scapegoat being casted out social order to their desperation and