The Unsettling of America
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The Unsettling of America
| Full title | The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture |
|---|---|
| Author | Wendell Berry |
| Published | 1977 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Wendell Berry’s 1977 book on how industrial agriculture and the culture around it severed people from land, work and community. |
Where I heard about it
- Jack Carey on X (Nov 9, 2026) shared a photographed paragraph and called it his “teaching statement.” The passage says we cannot live in machines, only in the world, and that when machine values obscure our direct dependence on eating, drinking, breathing and moving, we “prosper” at the cost of degradation. Asked for the source, he named this book, the essay “The Use of Energy,” p. 96 in his edition. Saved at This Wendell Berry paragraph is… (tweet).
Connections
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