In Henning Mankell's crime novel, 'The 5th Woman' Inspector Kurt Wallander observes :-
“When I was growing up, Sweden was still a country where people darned their socks. I even learned in school how to do it myself. Then suddenly one day it was over. Socks with holes in them were thrown out. No-one bothered to repair them. The whole society changed. ‘Wear it out and throw it away’ was the only rule that applied. As long as it was just a matter of our socks, the change didn’t make much difference. But then it started to spread, until finally it became a kind of invisible moral code. I think it changed our view of right and wrong, of what you were allowed to do to other people and what you weren’t.”
In Henning Mankell's crime novel, 'The 5th Woman' Inspector Kurt Wallander observes :-
ReplyDelete“When I was growing up, Sweden was still a country where people darned their socks. I even learned in school how to do it myself. Then suddenly one day it was over. Socks with holes in them were thrown out. No-one bothered to repair them. The whole society changed. ‘Wear it out and throw it away’ was the only rule that applied. As long as it was just a matter of our socks, the change didn’t make much difference. But then it started to spread, until finally it became a kind of invisible moral code. I think it changed our view of right and wrong, of what you were allowed to do to other people and what you weren’t.”