Finished reading: The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry 📚 "“Don’t you want to go in there and watch the TV?” Mrs. Hendrick asks. He shakes his head. “No,” he thinks. “God Amighty, no.” For the cost of living beyond his time is in putting up with the various noises and contraptions of these new times, this modern ignorance, as he has come to call it in his mind. The modern ignorance is in people’s assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. It is in the arrogance that will believe nothing it cannot prove, and respect nothing it cannot understand, and value nothing it cannot sell. The eyes can..." bethanyh.net