Joel

“We know, too, that these mechanical substitutions are part of a long-established process. The industrial economy has made its way among us by a process of division, degradation, and then replacement. It is only after we have been divided against each other that work and the products of work can be degraded; it is only after work and its products have been degraded that workers can be replaced by machines. Only when thought has been degraded can a mind be replaced by a machine, or a society of experts, or a government.”
― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays