A review by miel_reading
La Cité Saturne - Tome 1 by Hisae Iwaoka

3.0

✍︎What's more important in choosing a job than to choose a job that you love to do.

This little sci-fi graphic novel introduces us to Mitsu who recently got his first job as a glass cleaner. He chose to do so because of his father who fell during this service. This was his first reason.

✒︎Quand tu m’a dit qu’il était tombé pendant son travail, j’ai pensé que comme l’âme est légère, elle pourrait remonter de la terre jusqu’ici.

His second reason came much later when he discovered the real beauty of this job. Seeing the sky and the land inspired him to continue his daily routine.

✒︎Nous pouvons voir simultanément le ciel et la terre dont
nous n’avons pas eu le coeur de nous éloigner. C’est un luxe impossible aux niveaux supérieur et intermédiaire.

Having to do something every day it's a relief and makes your activity and existence meaningful. And the perseverance with which we wake up every day to go to work makes us alive, human. Having something to aspire to makes us human. That's what sets us apart from robots.

✒︎“Ma société est devenue importante parce qu’elle a trouvé des substitus au travail humain. En fait nous pensons qu’il n’est pas nécessaire que l’homme s’occupe du nettoyage, du lavage, du linge, du ménage dans son ensemble, des soinsaux plantes et aux animaux.”
“Autrement dit… il considère que mon père, Tamachi et nous tous… n’avions pas de raison d’être?”

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