Brian Marick on Nostr: “[S]ometimes, people forget how nice, gentle things are much harder to put back ...
“[S]ometimes, people forget how nice, gentle things are much harder to put back than they are to remove. So we get treeless, hot-concrete streets; and we beat our libraries into discipline centers; and the world gets worse and uglier; and it will be so much harder to repair than it would be simply to let it alone.” – Alexandra Petri (Humor columnist for the Washington Post. This is more poignant than funny:
https://wapo.st/3Kx4BXI - not paywalled.)
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