“Do the people in this... «The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia»
psyho_dmitry1 октября 2022“Do the people in this country approve of this war?” Shevek asked, interrupting a discourse on strategy. He had been puzzled by the absence of moral judgment in the birdseed papers on this subject. They had given up their ranting excitement; their wording was often exactly the same as that of the telefax bulletins issued by the government.
“Approve? You don’t think we’d lie down and let the damned Thuvians walk all over us? Our status as a world power is at stake!”
“But I meant the people, not the government. The… the people who must fight.”
“What’s it to them? They’re used to mass conscriptions. It’s what they’re for, my dear fellow!31