Clare answers “does it bother anyone that in the 20 years...”

Catherine Goldwyn asked this question about Station Eleven:

does it bother anyone that in the 20 years since these people got slammed and the human race got almost wiped away , no one thought about going to a library and figuring out how to rebuild? I mean, all the information is there - in writing, in books! All of it - for all the ages! For me, this was nagging me the whole time

Clare One thing I really liked about this book was that it really made you think about how much civilization runs on *labor*, not autonomous self-sustaining…moreOne thing I really liked about this book was that it really made you think about how much civilization runs on *labor*, not autonomous self-sustaining tech, that no matter how much of that labor is hidden and alienated, it's still there and it's still what makes everything go, and then I read this thread and I guess there's really no such thing as *making* people think about something after all.

It requires human labor to run a library. Otherwise it either gets mildewy or catches on fire. There are bonus book-damaging possibilities if the library's full of human corpses. (less)

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