By
Billy Criswell
“The Force is a powerful ally, life creates it, makes it grow, its energy surrounds us and binds us together.” (Kershner, 1980) Wendell, just as the Jedi master, describe energy as a religion, “Energy is the only life,” life which is all around us, here, on Earth. Wendell’s description of energy is not a new proposition, farmers have been aware of this connection to Earth for quite some time, maybe as long as man has been growing food. He surmises that man’s responsibility toward the earth has dwindled, due to faster production and profits. If this is true then we are all doomed, because if the tenets of the land do not replace what’s been taken, this source of energy will become extinct. Sort of like strip mining and erosion, both take and never replace, both are reckless and irresponsible. This bodes well with Berry’s theory of the life cycle and natural law. The cornerstone of agriculture is based on life, “using living energy to serve human life.” Then agriculture has a responsibility to preserve the life cycle and conform to natural processes and sustain from economic models of the world we hold so dear. This devotion to nature’s laws and limits would help replenish diverse landscapes, and ensure the continuation of life in communities around the world.
Wendell’s absolute disgust for certain levels of technological use is well established. He contends that society, for the most part have become slaves to the machine. The arguments that ensue on this subject are many, including “cheapness, labor saving, efficiency, economic growth and so on.” His disgust has to do more with man than technology. Human beings have always done things to the extreme, and as with most civilized nations, it is a completion as well. It is the way man and the use of the word infinite coexists together along with energy use; “Infinite growth, infinite consumption,” when the so-called specialist have no proof of infinite energy. Wendell contends that human kind has lost its moral restraint when it comes to machines and just about anything else as well.
Today human kind finds itself in a paradox of sorts according to Wendell. “That human kind cannot create energy, but they can refine it and convert it, and they are bound to it by one of the paradoxes of religion.” “They cannot have it except by losing it; they cannot use it except by destroying it.” These are indelible extremes of the human race, and along with the machine, human kind has found it hard to live life with contact with other life sources. The machine and its skills shroud the values of life’s dependencies at the fundamental core. This trustworthiness of the machine has helped begin the degradation of life and the falseness of energy renewal. Moreover, it is Wendell’s hope that man will conquer the machine. Therefore, real energy renewal will take place with knowledge of life responsibilities, nature’s law, and restraint from the infinite. With these things in place, the human race my live yet another day, and the good farmer will hear his calling to tend the real energy on Earth once again.
References
Berry, W. (1977). The Use of Energy. In W. Berry, The Unsettling of America Culture & Agriculture (pp. 81 - 95). San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
Kershner, I. (Director). (1980). Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back [Motion Picture].
Billy Criswell
“The Force is a powerful ally, life creates it, makes it grow, its energy surrounds us and binds us together.” (Kershner, 1980) Wendell, just as the Jedi master, describe energy as a religion, “Energy is the only life,” life which is all around us, here, on Earth. Wendell’s description of energy is not a new proposition, farmers have been aware of this connection to Earth for quite some time, maybe as long as man has been growing food. He surmises that man’s responsibility toward the earth has dwindled, due to faster production and profits. If this is true then we are all doomed, because if the tenets of the land do not replace what’s been taken, this source of energy will become extinct. Sort of like strip mining and erosion, both take and never replace, both are reckless and irresponsible. This bodes well with Berry’s theory of the life cycle and natural law. The cornerstone of agriculture is based on life, “using living energy to serve human life.” Then agriculture has a responsibility to preserve the life cycle and conform to natural processes and sustain from economic models of the world we hold so dear. This devotion to nature’s laws and limits would help replenish diverse landscapes, and ensure the continuation of life in communities around the world.
Wendell’s absolute disgust for certain levels of technological use is well established. He contends that society, for the most part have become slaves to the machine. The arguments that ensue on this subject are many, including “cheapness, labor saving, efficiency, economic growth and so on.” His disgust has to do more with man than technology. Human beings have always done things to the extreme, and as with most civilized nations, it is a completion as well. It is the way man and the use of the word infinite coexists together along with energy use; “Infinite growth, infinite consumption,” when the so-called specialist have no proof of infinite energy. Wendell contends that human kind has lost its moral restraint when it comes to machines and just about anything else as well.
Today human kind finds itself in a paradox of sorts according to Wendell. “That human kind cannot create energy, but they can refine it and convert it, and they are bound to it by one of the paradoxes of religion.” “They cannot have it except by losing it; they cannot use it except by destroying it.” These are indelible extremes of the human race, and along with the machine, human kind has found it hard to live life with contact with other life sources. The machine and its skills shroud the values of life’s dependencies at the fundamental core. This trustworthiness of the machine has helped begin the degradation of life and the falseness of energy renewal. Moreover, it is Wendell’s hope that man will conquer the machine. Therefore, real energy renewal will take place with knowledge of life responsibilities, nature’s law, and restraint from the infinite. With these things in place, the human race my live yet another day, and the good farmer will hear his calling to tend the real energy on Earth once again.
References
Berry, W. (1977). The Use of Energy. In W. Berry, The Unsettling of America Culture & Agriculture (pp. 81 - 95). San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
Kershner, I. (Director). (1980). Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back [Motion Picture].
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