Wendell Berry, iconic farmer-poet, dies at 92
America just lost its sharpest critic of techno-industrial mania, and naturally, people are learning about it on the exact pocket screens he warned would ruin humanity.
For more than half a century, Wendell Berry worked the land in Kentucky with draft horses, typed essays on a mechanical typewriter, and calmly told modern society that its obsession with speed, profit, and industrial agribusiness was a spiritual dead end.
He was never an aesthetic influencer playing at homesteading for Instagram. The man published dozens of books of poetry, fiction, and fierce cultural critiques while actually breaking his back in the dirt every single season.
There is quiet irony in the fact that the era's most eloquent case against the digital age was hammered onto paper with metal keys by a farmer who lived past ninety without ever needing an email address.
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