Machineries of reason, machineries of conduct, machineries of virtue. The machine that regulates instinct, keeps one’s hands free of another man’s throat, free of one’s own. These machines have all, as someone said, gone too long in the elements. Gummed now, rusted, bloodless.
I forget who said it and I no longer care.
Tags: morality solitude post-apocalyptic societal-breakdown
Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed.
A.J. QuinnellTags: society poverty crime laws societal-breakdown
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