The Unreal and the Real Volume 1: Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin: Where on Earth

by Ursula K. Le Guin

she did not recognise the place where she had come today, a place where she was like other people, sharing with them the singular catastrophe of being alive.

“The hell it won’t be occupation! Occupation by money, materialism, their markets, their values, you don’t think we can hold out against them, do you? What’s social justice to a color TV set? That battle’s lost before it’s fought. Where do we stand?”

I had thought that only beetles had this delusion of Progress.