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.”
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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.”
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