Finding Meaning In Ursula K. Haber's The Lathe Of Heaven

Would you feel comfortable if someone determined your fate without knowing you as a person? Should one person decide what is right or wrong for society or even a single individual? And who defines what is an appropriately perfect world? The answers to these questions influenced my view about how change is determined. Throughout the novel, The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula K. Le Guin, Haber argues changing the world for the better is a positive resource available to the world. In my opinion, having the power Haber has over Orr, is too great of a responsibility for one individual alone. I disagree with Haber’s view on how change through Orr’s effective dreaming is an advantage to humanity because natural order does not lead to entropy (a doctrine of inevitable social decline and degeneration). George put it best
But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough.” (Le Guin, 140). This quote surmises my belief that no one individual should play God, nor should one individual have the power to control the masses because too many factors come to play in making that decision.

Haber argues that natural order leads to entropy. Ultimately, what is at stake, is a complete disorder of the world. When one has the ability to change the natural order of the world, it can lead to negative outcomes, which can create a more vulnerable state of existence. When the natural order is put in disarray, chaotic issues result as the end product. One such example from the book explains the side-effects that come with reconfiguring natural harmony, leading to undesirable results. Haber used Orr to make a better world based off of his own personal