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A review by savaging
The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin
5.0
Will I sound like a rube if I say Ursula K. Le Guin is the most compelling political and social theorist I have ever encountered?
From "The Day Before the Revolution":
"she, and the other kids, and her parents, and their parents, and the drunks and whores and all of River Street, were at the bottom of something -- were the foundation, the reality, the source. But will you drag civilization down into the mud? cried the shocked decent people, later on, and she had tried for years to explain to them that if all you had was mud, then if you were God you made it into human beings, and if you were human you tried to make it into houses where human beings could live. But nobody who thought he was better than mud would understand."
From "The Day Before the Revolution":
"she, and the other kids, and her parents, and their parents, and the drunks and whores and all of River Street, were at the bottom of something -- were the foundation, the reality, the source. But will you drag civilization down into the mud? cried the shocked decent people, later on, and she had tried for years to explain to them that if all you had was mud, then if you were God you made it into human beings, and if you were human you tried to make it into houses where human beings could live. But nobody who thought he was better than mud would understand."