...if you should undertake to appeal or complain to one of these great
corporations on behalf of your community, you would discover something
most remarkable: you would find that these organizations are organized
expressly for the evasion of responsibility. They are structures in
which, as my brother says, "the buck never stops." The buck is
processed up the hierarchy until finally it is passed to "the
shareholders," who characteristically are too widely dispersed, too
poorly informed, and too unconcerned to be responsible for anything.
The ideal of the modern corporation is to be (in terms of its own
advantage) anywhere and (in terms of local accountability) nowhere.
Wendell Berry
"It is extremely difficult to exalt the usefulness of any productive
discipline as such in a society that is at once highly stratified and
highly mobile. Both the stratification and the mobility are based upon
notions of prestige, which are in turn based upon these reliquary social
fashions."
-- Wendell Berry “The Unsettling of America”
"...our country is not being destroyed by
bad politics, it is being destroyed by a bad way
of life. Bad politics is merely another result."
-- Wendell Berry (
http://www.brtom.org/wb/berry.html)
"A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another
pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life."
You can best serve civilization by being against
what usually passes for it.
-- Wendell Berry