> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Author:: Amitav Ghosh > Reference:: Sea of Poppies (2008) > Date:: 2008 > Tags:: #warp > WeftLinks:: [[Peace and justice value of craft]] > Claim:: [[Claim - Craft provides a peaceful means of championing justice.]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary > Ghosh proposes that crafting encourages selflessness ### Highlights > he had often wondered how that attachment was born. It occurred to him now to ask himself if this was how it happened: was it possible that the mere fact of using one’s hands and investing one’s attention in someone other than oneself, created a pride and tenderness that had nothing whatever to do with the response of the object of one’s care– ==just as a craftsman’s love for his handiwork is in no way diminished by the fact of it being unreciprocated?==