MEDITATION-NO HUMANS NEED APPLY

God created the garden and put man and woman in it to tend it and care for it in partership with God.

Now we seek to recreate the garden, Paradise, on our own. If only we had enough power, enough resources, enough labor saving devices, enough of something we don't seem to have. Except people. All the schematics for paradise from the seventies and eightes seem to have room for everything but people. And this abundance comes with a price tag. After we've come up with the ultimate labor saving devices and put everyone out of work who will have the money to buy all this abundance?

Machines planting, harvesting, recycling; cycle after cycle: a paradise of machine perfection. No disruptive, unprogrammable, imperfect humans need apply.

Note to self-reading Wendell Berry before noon is not for the faint of heart