The dispossessed book cover5/21/2023 Yet administrative work must be done, and the institutions in place to do that work have become more bureaucratic with each generation. On Anarres, society is anarchistic and government no longer exists. They are not failed experiments, but they are not entirely successful either-owing to human nature-and Le Guin shows us the best and worth of both, all the while commenting on humanity and present-day social organization. Yet both are dysfunctional, have strayed from whatever utopian ideals may have founded them. Both are superior to the contemporary government of Earth, which at this stage has just barely managed to avoid destroying Earth's biome. Each feels that the other is an aberration. The success of The Dispossessed lies in Le Guin’s presentation of two distinct visions of utopia.
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