Berry, Wendell -- Essay (2000), “The Total Economy,” Citizenship Papers (2003)

Dave — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:27:12 +0000

The folly at the root of this foolish economy began with the idea that a corporation should be regarded, legally, as “a person.” But the limitless destructiveness of this economy comes about precisely because a corporation is not a person. A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance. Unlike a person, a corporation does not age. It does not arrive, as most persons finally do, at a realization of the shortness and smallness of human lives; it does not come to see the future as the lifetime of the children and grandchildren of anybody in particular.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (2000), “The Total Economy,” Citizenship Papers (2003)
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Shain, Merle -- Some Men are More Perfect Than Others, ch. 9 “Being True” (1973)

Dave — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 14:04:33 +0000

I’m not sure there can be loving without commitment, although commitment takes all kinds of forms, and there can be commitment for the moment as well as commitment for all time. The kind that is essential for loving marriages — and love affairs, as well — is a commitment to preserving the essential quality of your partner’s soul, adding to them as a person rather than taking away.

Merle Shain (1935-1989) Canadian journalist and author
Some Men are More Perfect Than Others, ch. 9 “Being True” (1973)
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Berry, Wendell -- Essay (2000), “The Total Economy,” Citizenship Papers (2003)

Shain, Merle -- Some Men are More Perfect Than Others, ch. 9 “Being True” (1973)