The Lesson of the Clothespin: Refusing to Discard the Broken Things in a Throwaway Culture

his life via spreadsheets. “We live in a high-density society, Leo. People don’t have tolerance for… friction. We have a solution.”

He slid a pamphlet across the steel table. It featured a sleeping dog on a cloud.

“It’s a new daily sedative,” he said smoothly. “Not a tranquilizer, exactly. It’s a mood stabilizer. It smooths out the edges. He won’t care continue reading …