The Need to Be Whole
Wendell Berry
okt. 2022 · RB Media · Berättare: Nick Offerman
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Wendell Berry has never been afraid to speak up for the dispossessed. The Need to Be Whole continues the work he began in The Hidden Wound (1970) and The Unsettling of America (1977), demanding a careful exploration of this hard, shared
truth: The wealth of the mighty few governing this nation has been built on the unpaid labor of others.
Without historical understanding of this practice of dispossession—the displacement of Native peoples, the destruction of both the land and land-based communities, ongoing racial division—we are doomed to continue industrialism’s
assault on both the natural world and every sacred American ideal. Berry writes, “To deal with so great a problem, the best idea may not be to go ahead in our present state of unhealth to more disease and more product development. It may
be that our proper first resort should be to history: to see if the truth we need to pursue might be behind us where we have ceased to look.” If there is hope for us, this is it: that we honestly face our past and move into a future guided by the
natural laws of affection. This book furthers Mr. Berry’s part in what is surely our country’s most vital conversation.
truth: The wealth of the mighty few governing this nation has been built on the unpaid labor of others.
Without historical understanding of this practice of dispossession—the displacement of Native peoples, the destruction of both the land and land-based communities, ongoing racial division—we are doomed to continue industrialism’s
assault on both the natural world and every sacred American ideal. Berry writes, “To deal with so great a problem, the best idea may not be to go ahead in our present state of unhealth to more disease and more product development. It may
be that our proper first resort should be to history: to see if the truth we need to pursue might be behind us where we have ceased to look.” If there is hope for us, this is it: that we honestly face our past and move into a future guided by the
natural laws of affection. This book furthers Mr. Berry’s part in what is surely our country’s most vital conversation.
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Nick Offerman was born in Minooka, Illinois on June 26, 1970. He received a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993. He is an actor, and carpenter. He is best known for the role of Ron Swanson in the NBC series Parks and Recreation. He has also appeared in several films including Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Kings of Summer, and We're the Millers. He is the owner of the Offerman Woodshop, where he builds canoes and dining room tables. He released an instructional DVD in 2008 entitled Fine Woodstrip Canoe Building with Nick Offerman. His first book, Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living, was published in 2013 and made The New York Times Best Seller List in 2015.
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