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Rebecca Solnit: Orwell’s Roses (Paperback, 2021, Granta)

“In the year 1936 a writer planted roses.” So begins Rebecca Solnit’s new book, a …

Those obsessed with productivity and injustice often disparage doing nothing, though by doing nothing we usually mean a lot of subtle actions and observations and cultivation of relationships that are doing many kinds of something. It's a doing something who's value and results are not so easily quantified or comodified, and you could argue that any and every evasion of quantify ability and comodifiability is a victory against assembly lines, authorities and oversimplification.

Orwell’s Roses by  (Page 191)