Wendell Berry

December 18, 2018

Wendell Berry on the wisdom of simplicity

Here is Wendell Berry in The Hidden Wound (Boston: Houston Mifflin, 1970), pages 100-101: I am far from conceding anything to those who assume that the poor or anyone else can be improved by recourse to that carnival of waste and ostentation and greed known as "our high standard of living." As Thoreau so well knew, …

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You must read this article in Christianity Today's online version about writer-academic-farmer-social critic Wendell Berry. I believe Berry has some of the most subversive things to say about American life and culture that we need to hear today.