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Finished "The Dispossessed" today. A lot has already been said about it, I'm not to repeat; but to speak on my experiences and questions, I wonder what could improve the memetic fitness of Anarresti society.

It seems to me, by the end of the book, that the walls that are about to crumble down are protecting Anarres from possession. Shevek revolts against the flaws and rot of his society, but is he about to bring only more misery to his people?

How could a society protect itself from manifestation of authority, from Sabuls of all kinds, especially over spans of hundreds of years, to do not allow Sheveks inorder to protect itself?

I hypothesise that one way to do so is with intellectual uplift and establishment of culture of rational thought. Then every member of society could derive themselves the wider consequences of their actions. Instead of opaque cultural memes, explicit intellectual ones.