Dec 042024
The Tiger by John Vaillant. Set in the dense maritime forests of the far southeast of Russia (Siberia) .
P. 254, para 1:
(Why they (the villagers) didn’t participate in the hunt?)
There were grains of truth in all of these claims, but underlying them was a lack of collective morale, distrust of authority, and an ingrained passivity that is one of the enduring legacies of state-enforced disempowerment.
There is anything but passivity and a lack of collective morale in the continuation of the covid years; we need to keep pounding, but we are blessed.