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The sectionmen and their families communicate little with one another, and the railroad—their employer—is their only source of contact with the wider world. Little wonder that at each milepost, Johnson finds families “driven to eccentricity by isolation.”
Declining Cities, Declining Unions: Urban Sprawl and U.S. Inequality - Dissent Magazine
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A desire not to butt into other people’s business is eighty percent of all human wisdom.”
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
The only security we have is our neighbors’ approval. An archist can break a law and hope to get away unpunished, but you can’t ‘break’ a custom; it’s the framework of your life with other people. We’re only just beginning to feel what it’s like to be revolutionaries, as Shev put it in the meeting today. And it isn’t comfortable.”
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
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