“…most people are living on the far side of a broken
connection, and…this is potentially catastrophic…most people are now fed,
clothed, and sheltered from sources toward which they feel no gratitude and
exercise no responsibility…what can turn us from this deserted future, back
into the sphere of our being, the great dance that joins us to our home, to
each other and to other creatures, to the dead and the unborn? I think it is
love…”
." Is it realistic to assume
that the present economy would be just fine if only it would stop poisoning the
air and water, or if only it would stop soil erosion, or if only it would stop
degrading watersheds and forest ecosystems, or if only it would stop seducing
children, or if only it would quit buying politicians, or if only it would give
women and favoured minorities an equitable share of the loot? Realism, I think,
is a very limited programme, but it informs us at least that we should not look
for bird eggs in a cuckoo clock."
Wendell Berry
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