Notebook for
Our Only World: Ten Essays
1. Paragraphs from a Notebook
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Cures, to industrial medicine, are marketable products extractable from bodies. To cure in this sense is not to heal. To heal is to make whole, not so ideologically definable or so technologically possible or so handily billable.
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the scientific-industrial culture, founded nominally upon materialism, arrives at a sort of fundamentalist disdain for material reality. The living world is then treated as dead matter, the worth of which is determined exclusively by the market.
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But we appear to be deficient in learning or teaching a competent concern for the way that parts are joined. We certainly are not learning or teaching adequately the arts of forming parts into wholes, or the arts of preserving the formal integrity of the things we receive as wholes already formed.
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We may say with some confidence that the most apparently beneficent products of science and industry should be held in suspicion if they are costly to consumers or bring power to governments or profits to corporations.
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Scared for health, afraid of death, bored, dissatisfied, vengeful, greedy, ignorant, and gullible— these are the qualities of the ideal consumer.
2. The Commerce of Violence
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Each new resort to violence enlarges the argument against our species, and the task of hope becomes harder.
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People do not become wealthy by treating one another or the world kindly and with respect.
3. A Forest Conversation
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In forestry as in farming, low production costs can increase the quality of work and so of care for the land. The logger who is free of financial anxiety can stop and think.
4. Local Economies to Save the Land and the People
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“Employment” in a “job” completely satisfies the social aim of the industrial economy and its industrial government.
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Our aim, to borrow language from John Todd, must be “elegant solutions predicated on the uniqueness of [every] place.”
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There can never be too much knowledge, but there certainly can be too much school.
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This technology is advertised as “labor-saving,” but in fact it is people-replacing.
5. Less Energy, More Life
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If we want to stop the impoverishment of land and people, we ourselves must be prepared to become poorer.
6. Caught in the Middle
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And so we are talking about a populace in which nearly everybody is needy, greedy, envious, angry, and alone.
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If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction clearly are perversions.
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Conjugal love, Kierkegaard wrote, is faithful, constant, humble, patient, long-suffering, indulgent, sincere, contented, vigilant, willing, joyful. All these virtues have the characteristic that they are inward qualifications of the individual. The individual is not fighting with external foes but fights with himself. . . . Conjugal love does not come with any outward sign . . . with whizzing and bluster, but it is the imperishable nature of a quiet spirit. (Either/ Or, in A Kierkegaard Anthology,
8. Our Deserted Country
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The purpose of industrial technology has always been to cheapen work by displacing human workers, thus increasing the flow of wealth from the less wealthy to the more wealthy.
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