The Prescience of Wendell Berry

So many goodly citties ransacked and razed; so many nations destroyed and made desolate; so infinite millions of harmelesse people of all sexes, states and ages, massacred, ravaged and put to the sword; and the richest, the fairest and the best part of the world topsiturvied, ruined and defaced for the traffick of Pearles and Pepper: Oh mechanicall victories, oh base conquest.

MONTAIGNE

Berry, Wendell. The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture (p. 4). 1977. Catapult. Kindle Edition.

I started this post months ago, right after reading The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture. The agriculture-based concern he raised at the increasing industrialization of farming reminds me of what's happening now with "AI" and digital products in general.