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Re: [Homestead] Fw: [Livingontheland] Wendell Berry On Small Farms, Local Wisdom, And The Folly Of Greed

From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
To: Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Fw: [Livingontheland] Wendell Berry On Small Farms, Local Wisdom, And The Folly Of Greed
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:27:17 -0500

On Jul 17, 2008, at 1:33 PM, Don Bowen wrote:

Wendell Berry On Small Farms, Local Wisdom, And The Folly Of Greed

by Jeff Fearnside

I like this:

Berry: To make yourself a passive receptacle for information, or
whatever anybody wants to pour into you, is a bad idea. To be informed
used to be a meaningful experience; it meant "to be formed from
within." But information now is just a bunch of disconnected data or
entertainment and, as such, may be worthless, perhaps harmful. As T.S.
Eliot wrote a long time ago, information is different from knowledge,
and it has nothing at all to do with wisdom.

[Homestead] Fw: [Livingontheland] Wendell Berry On Small Farms, Local Wisdom, And The Folly Of Greed, Don Bowen, 07/17/2008
- Re: [Homestead] Fw: [Livingontheland] Wendell Berry On Small Farms, Local Wisdom, And The Folly Of Greed, bob ford, 07/17/2008
- Re: [Homestead] Fw: [Livingontheland] Wendell Berry On Small Farms, Local Wisdom, And The Folly Of Greed, Gene GeRue, 07/17/2008