Jodi- Thanks so much for being an active reader. Henry and the Great Society is certainly about the Machine but also about the death of small hold farming. Wendell Berry's career has really been an extended treatment of that issue. Thanks so much for this tie in.
Ugh. The good kind of uncomfortable. What to do when you realize you are already inside the Machine? I have a quote on my wall by DFW that says "whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself". I wonder how many of us it would take to live what we think is most important before the Machine tries to shut us down. That might be fun...
Wow, cross-pollination of this with another post today:
https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/brian-reisinger-land-rich-cash-poor
I hadn't known about the novella on Henry, many thanks for it.
Jodi- Thanks so much for being an active reader. Henry and the Great Society is certainly about the Machine but also about the death of small hold farming. Wendell Berry's career has really been an extended treatment of that issue. Thanks so much for this tie in.
Ugh. The good kind of uncomfortable. What to do when you realize you are already inside the Machine? I have a quote on my wall by DFW that says "whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself". I wonder how many of us it would take to live what we think is most important before the Machine tries to shut us down. That might be fun...