Monday 31 October 2016

ROOTLESSNESS

'Since the end of World War II, the economic, technological and social forces of industrialism have pretty thoroughly disintegrated the rural communities of the United States and, I believe, of other parts of the world also, inducing in them a "mobility" that has boiled over in the cities, disintegrating them as well.' 
Wendell Berry, 'Local Knowledge in the Age of Information' in The Way of Ignorance, p.115.