“ work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.
ALASDAIR GRAY (inspired by poet Dennis Lee)
i’m taking this deeply to heart. gray penned an essay for the sunday herald in 2007 expanding his thoughts on the slogan:
The only people who think their nation can only be made worse, not better, are likely to be very rich. … The essential do-gooders in any nation work to provide food, clothes, and necessary transport. They build our houses and roads, mend the plumbing, empty our middens but such folk are the most lowly paid and have little time to improve their nation, having first to silence (as John Locke said) the croaking in their hungry bellies and those of their children.
