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9 months ago    |   Tags: corporation economy money earth farming wendell berry  

"But the limitless destructiveness of this economy comes about precisely because a corporation is not a person. A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance. As such, unlike a person, a corporation does not age. It does not arrive, as most persons finally do, at a realization of the shortness and smallness of human lives; it does not come to see the future as the lifetimes of the children and grandchildren of anybody in particular. It goes about its business as if it were immortal, with the single purpose of become a bigger pile of money."

- Wendell Berry

Cool old guy says cool things

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1 year ago    |   Tags: peach poem wendell berry government friend   |   Notes: 1

A Meeting in a Part - cool poem by this guy


In a dream I meet
my dead friend. He has,
I know, gone long and far,
and yet he is the same
for the dead are changeless.
They grow no older.
It is I who have changed,
grown strange to what I was.
Yet I, the changed one,
ask: “How you been?”
He grins and looks at me.
“I been eating peaches
off some mighty fine trees.”

-Wendell Berry

He also said this pretty cool thing about government:

“I wish to testify that in my best moments I am not aware of the existence of the government. Though I respect and feel myself dignified by the principles of the Declaration and the Constitution, I do not remember a day when the thought of the government made me happy, and I never think of it without the wish that it might become wiser and truer and smaller than it is.”