Our economy as an egotistical monarch (Berry)
September 26th, 2006 | Published in Consumerism, Economics, Quotes
As a deity the economy is a sort of egotistical French monarch, for it apparently can see no alternative to itself except chaos, and perhaps that is its chief weakness. For, of course, chaos is not the only alternative to it. A better alternative is a better economy.
–Wendell Berry, “Discipline and Hope” in A Continuous Harmony (1972), p. 116-117