Wendell Berry: The Thought of Limits in the Prodigal Age

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  @nathanketsdever3150 · 4 years ago

  Berry starts at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0fLDa7a6Ag&amp;t=542">9:02</a>

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  @timharper4246 · 1 year ago

  Hes an amazing human being. God bless

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  @anthonygarciaguitar · 1 year ago

  I always felt that farmers are artists and artists are farmers. There is so much in common. They don’t fit the modern economic paradigm but are fundamental for sustenance body mind and spirit.

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  @aresmars2003 · 8 years ago

  @<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0fLDa7a6Ag&amp;t=535">8:55</a> Berry!

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  @hollandgreen7555 · 4 years ago

  I was introduced to Wendell Berry in college via his book on Amish Economics in 1999. &nbsp;I have a degree in Environmental Science. I have since spent 15 years in plain people--many of whom were self educated to the 8th grade by 8th grade educated people in their own private schools. These &quot; uneducated plain people are generally very wealthy and self employed. &nbsp;They have their own banks and are recognized legally as their own insurance organizations. <br><br>I trade stocks. I have a strong background in the US markets.<br><br>There is one thing that I recall in Macro economic in college that struck me wrong, is fundamental to the US economy, and is contrary to the mindset of these plain Anabaptist people--like the Amish and Mennonites. &nbsp;In the Macro economics class I was taught that after I buy something the money is gone and it can &nbsp;not be gotten back. So, if I buy a product and dont like it, then I should just throw it out and buy a different product because using the bad product would just create dissatisfaction. So because the money is gone the money is no longer a consideration.<br><br>This is US consumeristic thinking. &nbsp;This is not the thinking of Amish Economics.<br>The Amish are truly stoic. They have endured horrendous persecution over the centuries.<br><br>I know an Amish Mennonite man that went to McDonalds and bough a breakfast platter. &nbsp;He was given the wrong order. &nbsp;Instead of taking it back and getting the right order, he went ahead and ate it because he did not want to waste it. &nbsp; <br><br>This man grew up in Georgia in the 1960&apos;s. &nbsp;His family had a farm. &nbsp;<br><br>Jimmy Carter went to his house a number of times over the years to sell his family peanuts. Jimmy Carter admired this man&apos;s family and the way the children behaved. &nbsp;As well as the work ethic and commitment of the man&apos;s church community.<br><br>Jimmy Carter modeled Habitat For Humanity after Mennonite Disaster Service. &nbsp;Mr. Carter plugged a thrift store into it.

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  @MrMyWave · 9 years ago (edited)

  Much respect, quality not quantity. at a low price with no over use.

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  @marcmccook9154 · 3 weeks ago

  MAGNIFICENT

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  @absoluterefusal · 7 years ago

  With regard to population and the question of sustaining without industrial scale farming, etc., I think that even if it were &quot;doped out&quot; we would still need to address the meaning of work for all of us. While small farms require human and animal labor, they can hardly be supported if most of us are writing code for machines that will eventually require all other resources, including that of measured carbon output.

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  @anuradhainamdar8967 · 2 years ago

  I am reading the book of Wendell &quot; The unsettling of America: Culture and agriculture &quot; but finding it a bit difficult to comprehend everything because the English is high category, though I have got the gist of what he what&apos;s to convey.

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  @PrairieFarmgirl-v8d · 3 weeks ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0fLDa7a6Ag&amp;t=1140">19:00</a> -why Canada has dairy supply management.

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  @zsedcftglkjh · 3 years ago

  Begins at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0fLDa7a6Ag&amp;t=543">9:03</a>

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  @SamHusseini · 3 years ago

  The limits of thought.