A Case for Complexity
Wendell Berry's vision for a world beyond partisanship
Dear readers,
I have a longer post on this topic coming your way soon, and am excited to get your thoughts on it. But I came across this Wendell Berry quote this afternoon, and realized that it offers a fascinating set of insights into our current political moment. I’d love to hear what you think of it.
Happy Thursday,
Gracy
May 21, 1969
“If you aren’t for us you’re against us, somebody is always saying. That seems to me a sad little pair of options, insofar as to any kind of intelligence the possibilities ought to be numerous, if not infinite. Intelligence consists in being for and against such things as political movements up to a point, which it is the task of intelligence to define.
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