“The modern urban‐industrial society is based on a series of radical disconnections between body and soul, husband and wife, marriage and community, community and the earth,” he wrote. “At each of these points of disconnection the collaboration of corporation, government, and experts sets up a profit‐making enterprise that results in the further dismemberment and impoverishment of the Creation.”His vision, his writings, were truly radical. He taught me to understand racism in America as our “hidden wound.” Not because we had lost sight of it, but because we still hide it from ourselves.
I’ve got to go pull all his books off my shelves and re-read them….
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