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Date Posted: 16:55:29 01/19/02 Sat
Author: BZC
Subject: Manifesto: The Mad Farmer

Manifesto: The Mad Farmer
Liberation Front

by Wendell Berry

Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay.
Want more of everything ready made.
Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die and you will have a window in your head.
Not even your future will be a mystery anymore.
Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in a little drawer.
When they want you to buy something they will call you.
When they want you to die for profit they will let you know.
So, friends, every day do something that won't compute.
Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing.
Take all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it.
Denounce the government and embrace the flag.
Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands.
Give your approval to all you cannot understand.
Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.
Ask the questions that have no answers.
Say that your main crop is the forest and that you will not live to harvest.
Say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted in the mold.
Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.
Put your faith in the two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years.
Listen to carrion - put your ear close, and hear the faint chattering of the songs that are to come.
Expect the end of the world. Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable.
Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
So long as women do not possess great power, please women more than men. Ask yourself: Will this satisfy?
A woman satisfied to bear a child?
Will this disturb the sleep of a woman near to giving birth?
Go with your love to the fields. Lie easy in the shade.
Rest you head in her lap.
Swear allegiance to what is nighest, your thoughts.
As soon as the generals and the politicoes can predict the motions of your mind, lose it.
Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn't go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction.
Practice ressurection.

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That's good advice for a wild free life, BZC, where' d you get it hun? (NT) -- Okay but I can have a FEW ready mades huh? spoot, 22:56:57 01/19/02 Sat
Mmm - interesting. I think we are all suffering from information overload - too much going on, too much to do (that you would like to do), too many things that we would like to have, too much food to eat, etc. - and only the same old 24 hours in a day. It makes us all long for the time when we didnt know so much. We have too many choices. Gives rise to the thought that the Shakers might have had the right idear - except for the "no sex" part; that leads to either exitinction or madness.... (NT) -- gumtree, 23:41:01 01/21/02 Mon
- Ooh Gum I think you've hit on the right button there! I feel myself torn apart between my real world and Eddie's world, not to mention any other interests I might have! Simplicity, it sounds good... (NT) -- spoot, 15:59:05 02/08/02 Fri