“The mass of filth has this in its favor, that it is not a liar.”
A garbageman with a philosophy background writes about the labor that keeps the city alive and that everyone is trained not to see. The trash does not lie. It is the honest record of what a society actually consumes and discards. The people who haul it are invisible by design, because noticing them means noticing the waste. Worth reading for the view from the back of the truck.