We started watching the newer All Creatures Great and Small series this evening and it’s delightful. There’s nothing I love more than a low stakes British drama.
“Can Wendell Berry save us from Peter Thiel?” The Earth Loving Faithful against the End Times Fascists.
The two original raised beds are flourishing!
More on rational abstraction
Following up on my post about rational abstraction. That mode of thinking is an acquired skill, taught mainly at universities. It is a technical ability needed for certain types of work; its the equivalent of the knowledge of accounting rules for accountants. Because of the self-involvement of the elites educated in such environments and employed in such jobs, it has been generalized into a skill thought to be a base requirement for functioning humanity.
Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen has a new video following up on his earlier video on Trump as trickster. Relatedly, check out the episode of The Emerald on the trickster which I linked here.
Couple of pictures from the garden this evening.
The free world realized in the twentieth century that gulags couldn’t break the human spirit. So it invented traffic.
Good interview with Mary Berry, daughter of Wendell Berry and executive director of the Berry Center:
To my mind, the agrarian ideal—the idea that we live in a land ethic, that what’s good for the health of the land is good for us—all that is true, it turns out. So, we tell our students here, If you want to farm, you’re going to have to learn to take absolute pleasure in the place that you are. I think if you can learn to be satisfied and fascinated by the place where you are, contentment is possible, and from contentment, it seems to me, joy is then possible.
It’s sometimes said that Tolkien had no “magical system” underlying LOTR. This post makes a good argument that there is one, albeit more subtle than most.
Take Kent Rollins’ two ingredient biscuit recipe, add a half cup of raisins and two teaspoon of cinnamon (maybe some powdered sugar icing if you’re into that) and you have cinnamon raisin biscuits better than Hardee’s had back in the day.