08/10/2026
“More and more, we take for granted that work must be destitute of pleasure. More and more, we assume that if we want to be pleased we must wait until evening, or the weekend, or vacation or retirement. More and more, our farms and forests resemble our factories and offices, which in turn more and more resemble prisons---why else should we be so eager to escape them? We recognize defeated landscapes by the absences of pleasure from them. We are defeated at work because our work gives us no pleasure. We are defeated at home because we have not pleasant work there. We turn to the pleasure industries for relief from our defeat, and are again defeated, for the pleasure industries can thrive and grow only upon our dissatisfaction with them.”
~ Wendell Berry, Economy and Pleasure
