Wendell Berry on the destructiveness of competition and - TopicsExpress

Wendell Berry on the destructiveness of competition and violence... (and Im not talking football, though one could argue that..) and THE BIG QUESTION: By dividing body and soul, we divided both from all else. We thus condemn ourselves to a loneliness for which the only compensation is violence- against other creatures, against the earth, against ourselves. For not matter the distinctions we draw between body and soul, body and earth, ourselves and others - the connections, the dependencies, the identities remain. And so we fail to contain or control our violence. It gets loose. Though there are categories of violence, or so we think, there are no categories of victimes. Violence against one is ultimately violence against all. The willingness to abuse other bodies is the willingness to abuse ones own. To damange the earth is to damage your children. To despise the ground is to despise its fruit; to despise the fruit is to despise its eaters. The wholeness of health is broken by despite. If comptition is the correct relation of creatures to one another and to the earth, then we must ask why exploitation is not more successful than it is. Why, having lived so long at the expense of other creatures and the earth, are we not healthier and happier than we are? Why does modern socieity exist under constant threat of the same suffering, deprivation, spite, contempt and obliteration that is has imposed on other people and other creatures? Why do the health of the body and the health of the earth decline together? And why, in consideration of this decline ofour worldly flesh and household, our sinful earth are we not healthier in spirit?

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