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diff --git a/reading/As local community decays along with local economy.txt b/reading/As local community decays along with local economy.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..06e26c2 --- /dev/null +++ b/reading/As local community decays along with local economy.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +As local community decays along with local economy, a vast amnesia settles over the countryside. As the exposed and disregarded soil departs with the rains, so local knowledge and local memory move away to the cities or are forgotten under the influence of homogenized salestalk, entertainment, and education. This loss of local knowledge and local memory-that is, of local culture-has been ignored, or written off as one of the cheaper "prices of progress," or made the business of folklorists. Nevertheless, local culture has a value, and part of its value is economic." (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005)) |