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I would insist that the economic arts are just as honorably and authentically refinable as the fine arts. And so I am nominating economy for an equal standing among the arts and humanities. I mean, not economics, but economy, the making of the human household upon the earth: the arts of adapting kindly the many human households to the earth’s many ecosystems and human neighborhoods. This is the economy that the most public and influential economists never talk about, the economy that is the primary vocation and responsibility of every one of us.
Wendell Berry, “It All Turns On Affection” (2012 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities)(via fuckyeahdomesticity)
Posted on April 24, 2012 via quarter morning with 13 notes
Source: neh.gov