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“It is easy for me to imagine,” wrote Wendell Berry in his extended essay Life Is a Miracle, “that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.” Berry wrote those words twenty years ago, and the great vision he foresaw is now upon us: Life versus the Machine. (p. 122)
— Jan 16, 2026 11:59AM
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“Across the spectrum, from conservatives to liberals, Marxists to fascists, believers to atheists, very little serious criticism of the entwined myths of progress, growth and materialism will ever be heard in the public sphere. Ultimately, most of us accede to our sovereign, happily or otherwise.”
— Jan 02, 2026 08:44AM
