Where does the garbage go? As we have tins and garbage alongside the road, and oil slicks in the water, so you have people, and I am one of your garbage people.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker compares himself to societal waste, suggesting humans are discarded like trash.
- In plain terms
- People are treated like garbage just like physical waste.
- What can you take from it?
- Society discards people like it discards trash.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How does society treat waste?
- Do you feel disposable?
Another view
This equates people with objects, which diminishes human agency.
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