Quote: Money, ease, and the future (Berry)
February 24th, 2006 | Published in Agrarianism, Culture, Quotes
The higher aims of “technological progress” are money and ease. And this exalted greed for money and ease is disguised and justified by an obscure, cultish faith in “the future.” We do as we do, we say, “for the sake of the future” or “to make a better future for our children.” How we can hope to make a good future by doing badly in the present, we do not say…. We do not need to plan or devise a “world of the future”; if we take care of the world of the present, the future will have received full justice from us.
—Wendell Berry, “Feminism, The Body, and the Machine” in The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry (2002), p. 73