Tim O'Reilly: Thinking About Wendell Berry's "In Distrust of Movements"

The essence of Berry's argument is that we as a culture need to get away from single-issue movements to fix this or that, and instead embrace holistic thinking about how society as a whole should be organized to achieve our goals. ...

I know that there are those who will counter that with the right technology we can grow our way out of anything. I used to believe that, but I'm not sure I do any more. I don't know that Berry has the right answer to the challenge we are facing, but he definitely has the right framing for the questions we need to be asking ourselves: