2022/007: Winter -- Ali Smith

2022/007: Winter -- Ali Smith

...the people in power were self-servers who’d no idea about and felt no responsibility towards history...They were like a new kind of being, she said – like beings who’d been birthed not by real historied time and people but by plastic carrier bags, she said.
Eh? he said.
That unhistorical, she said. That inhuman. That brainless and unknowing about all the centuries of all the ways that people carried things before they were invented. That damaging to the environment for years and years after they’ve outgrown their use. Damage for generations. [p. 55]

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