Up-to-date instead of excellent (Berry)
October 31st, 2006 | Published in Consumerism, Marketing and Advertising, Life, Economics, Culture, Quotes, Technology
We long ago gave up the wish to have things that were adequate or even excellent; we have preferred instead to have things that were up-to-date.
–Wendell Berry, “Living in the Future: The ‘Modern’ Agricultural Ideal” in The Unsettling of America (1972), pp. 57-58