Over the weekend I picked up a book with a promising title: "Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture." It helps chart a path to a promising coalition between new feminists and traditionalists.
We are trapped in the deepest imaginable form of incoherence: we call for more control over the consequences of mastery, yet vaguely recognize that this very response is the source of our deepest troubles.
Is there really any limit to political consolidation, when the very effects of that consolidation ensure the creation of even larger economic, military, and other crises that require more expansive consolidation?
"Solving for Pattern" means making connections between seemingly separate crises - such as those taking place in Greece and the Gulf of Mexico, ones that are both born of our collective incapacity to live within our means.
Mr. Wendell Berry of Kentucky will be in the Greater D.C. area this week, appearing at the Arlington Central Library Auditorium on Tuesday, May 4 at 7 p.m. Come early!
On the threshold between two unchosen ways of life - one of commitments, the other of choices. Both give rise to discontents, but ours today makes them a way of life.
