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 any more. 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. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest. Say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold. Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.
~Wendell Berry, excerpt from The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
On today's episode of Health Justice Radio, we consider the ways in which our own health and the health of our community, is linked to the health of the land. We speak with Knowing the Land is Resistance a Hamilton collective dedicated to exploring the remaining Carolinian Forest. Their writing has appeared in MayDay magazine where they ask questions like, "Why is there so little forest left? Who benefits from this? What do healthy natural communities look like in this area? How do disturbed wild spaces heal themselves? How can we, humans raised in this constrictive colonial, capitalist system, participate in that healing?" Listen here.
This program originally aired on CFMU 93.3 FM.
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