📚 On Legacy: In the Context of Lowry's The Giver

What The Giver can teach us about the fine line between caste systems and functioning families.

The Giver is many things, but in some very important ways it is the story about what you give up when you orient a society around mass producing families instead of letting them happen organically. To me it's always been a story about the dangers of specialization, and the importance of a society that values fuzzy emotions instead of pure rationality.

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