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Thursday 30 April 2009

People think either that they’ll die before the bill comes due or that somebody else will pay for it. But the world is complex, and if we are to make fit responses to the world, then our thinking—not our equipment, but our thoughts—will have to become complex also. Our thoughts can never become as complex as the world is—but, you see, an uncanny thing is possible. It’s possible to use the world well without understanding it in all of its complexity. People have done it. They’ve done it not by complicated technology, but by competent local adaptation, complex thought, sympathy, affection, local loyalties and fidelities, and so on. Wendell Berry

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