![]() There is, to be clear, a far-right nationalist president who wins the election in the book. It’s make “America great again.” Yes, Octavia Butler actually predicted the rise of Donald Trump. So a lot of people talk about Parable of the Talents now because of a certain slogan that I am not so fond of. And then lastly, we have some writings from Lauren’s husband, Bankhole. He was kind of a minor character in the first book, but he plays a really big role in the second book, Parable of the Talents. It also features journal entries and excerpts from a book written by Lauren’s younger brother Marcus who goes by Marc. It also features journal entries from her daughter Larkin, who kind of serves as an editor of this collection of journals that we have to tell the book, to tell the story of the book. So it features writing from, of course Lauren from her books Earthseed, Stories from Other Worlds, and a few others that are referenced throughout the book. However, instead of just being journals from Lauren, this book is actually told from the perspective of four people, which sometimes can be a little bit confusing. Much like Parable of the Sower, this book is a collection of journals. It’s about persecution of the practitioners of Earthseed, and it ultimately covers when Earthseed becomes successful. And if Parable of the Sower is about our main character Lauren Olamina discovering the, depending on who you ask, cult or philosophy called Earthseed, Parable of the Talents is about her sort of like…the early days of the church, if you will, the early days of Earthseed as she’s trying to get it off the ground. If you listened to us the last time, we talked about the prequel to this book, which is called Parable of the Sower. Today, we’re going to be taking a look at a book called Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Different ideas about humanity’s purpose.→ Buy on Bookshop from $15.62 (affiliate) ![]() Written as a series of journal entries from the perspectives of Lauren, her brother Marc, her husband Bankhole, and her daughter Larkin, Parable of the Talents is an epic conclusion to the Parable story that presents readers with a powerful vision of what humans can accomplish. This book picks up where Parable of the Sower left off, telling the story of Lauren Olamina, the founder of a religion called Earthseed, during the early days of Acorn and in the years that follow its fall. Originally intended to be the second book of a trilogy, Octavia Butler unfortunately passed away before she finished writing the next and final book. Butler ( buy on Bookshop from $15.63) is the sequel to Parable of the Sower and the second book in the Parable duology. And it’s a pretty scary place.Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. As Matt Taibbi wrote in Rolling Stone last year, saying Trump “must never have heard of Google,” President Ronald Reagan “made ‘Make America Great Again’ a backbone of his campaign.” But that’s because Trump’s slogan isn’t an original one. It may seem uncanny that Butler predicted the slogan nearly 20 years before Trump literally trademarked it. Photo of a page from Parable of the Talents by writer Kashmir Hill notes: And, as a couple people have pointed out, his fictional campaign uses the same slogan as real-life presidential candidate Donald Trump: Make America Great Again. In Butler’s grim future, a hardcore patriarchal religious leader named Andrew Steele Jarret is running for president as the head of the Christian Americans party. ![]() The two books in the series, Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, were published in 19, but feel terribly resonant today. As water and food become scarce, private companies and religious fundamentalists take over. ![]() In a near future, America is crumbling from climate change. Octavia Butler’s Earthseed series is a master work of dystopian science fiction. A “Make America Great Again” Christmas Cookie. ![]()
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