The Most Brilliant Heist In History | Wendell Berry

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[@laasyakannepalli6929]

Industrial farming... Industries in fact were never the solution... Maybe we should start destructuring our urbane lives and go more closer to land... Strengthen the countryside and build more sustainable livelihoods...

[@matthewgabbard6415]

People have been doing that. Since the 60s

[@regular_goof]

Based on the title of the video I thought this has to be a story about the banking system.

[@hiliacresorchard3773]

Do you know the name of the melon @5:39? Or where that is from?

[@amolbhavsar1620]

Robotics leads to human uselessness. It means a lot. We are building a road to self destruction.

[@jamesshaw3850]

Strange

[@aimeesayan23]

“The Leavers and The Takers”- everyone watching this needs to read Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

[@Fast-e-Learning]

Before industrial farming the earth could only support about 1 billion people. What is proposed then ?

[@SustainableHuman]

This is the lie we were sold, hence why it is the most brilliant heist in history. The truth is that small scale organic, restorative farming is far more productive per hectare than industrial agriculture. It is just far more labor intensive and far less profitable because of that. draxe.com/health/gardening-and-farming/permaculture/

[@matthewgabbard6415]

What’s funny to me is that the most ardent capitalist will criticize the Soviet Collectivization of the 30s but say nothing of the industrial system we use. Not that different in actual farming practice. Of course Stalin did it by force

[@user-ln6rc2qu5f]

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[@ermis6969]

We need machines to work instead of humans wherever possible. Industrialization is not the problem per se but how it is used in modern economies to bring profit unethically.

[@GabrieleBonetti]

Technology and how it's used are two different problems. You can have ethical and sustainable industry.

[@SustainableHuman]

When technology is used for the primary goal of making a profit, then you won't have ethics or sustainability associated with it.

[@hintersland7262]

@@SustainableHuman Technology will only make a profit if it meets a need

[@DavidQuispeCampbell]

​@hintersland7262 exactly, that's the other side of the problem. The only motivation on the supply side is profit, and the only motivation on the demand side is leisure and comfort removed from the land and the natural world. Both motivations at the expense of everything that is beautiful, true, and living in this world. Such is our society.

[@aptorres01]

a proper economy uhh like NATIVE PEOPLES had practiced for hundreds of years until subjected to colonial imperialism and GENOCIDE .

[@hintersland7262]

Nonsense, prior to colonial imperialism (you don't specify by whom to whom, Zulu to other Bantu tribes perhaps?) "native peoples" were murdering, enslaving and robbing their neighbours as much as anyone else.

[@DavidQuispeCampbell]

Wendell Berry is very conscious of this and other important aspects of life and history in his work.

[@DavidQuispeCampbell]

​@@hintersland7262Yada yada yada no civilization erased cultural and ethnic diversity like European imperialism did, just like nothing has destroyed ecological diversity the way industrialism and industrial ag have. That doesn't mean white people are bad it just means incorporating history and reality into our efforts to create a better world is crucial, like Wendell Berry does.

[@ashroney]

Technology is efficiency. The better our technology gets, the more efficient we become. Eventually robots will replace most _current_ human jobs. Humanity will interface with AI, and it will change our jobs and usefulness immensely, making us incredibly efficient and effective. Technology will not make us useless, it will enhance it. The way we use technology is important. We must make sure to maintain our humanity and connection to nature, and take care of our planet and animals. If we continue to farm animals for meat, we must ensure these animals are treated very well until their end.

[@DavidQuispeCampbell]

Yeah we've heard that over and over again. When have technological advances EVER strengthened the health of the natural world or our balance and connection to it? There are a few specific examples of improving human well-being but are far and away outnumbered by the advances that have the sole purpose of destruction and leisure, at the expense of the planet. So I'm not holding my breath for that, I'll go to what is time tested, soul tested and life tested.

[@MeMe-bg8ci]

Human labor can be made obsolete via technology therefore freeing people. Farms can be brought indoors using no soil, no pesticides, be completely automated, and use 1% of the water used in conventional farming (see vertical farming) which gives the current farm land back to nature to sustain. Our knowledge can either help or kill us. I understand the underlying wish you want to portray but this video misses the mark. Friendly criticism as I normally love your content.

[@globaldigitaldirectsubsidi4493]

Don't like the unnuanced anti progress stance.

[@SustainableHuman]

Progress. What an interesting word and is entirely dependent on the goal. So what goal are you trying to make progress toward and how does this message conflict with that progress?

[@globaldigitaldirectsubsidi4493]

@@SustainableHuman there were just some anti science anti tech references, when it´s just profit as the false intention which is the problem, not science and technology.

[@herrvierkoetter]

restoration agriculture including semi-free ranging livestock on the farm not only regenerates ecosystem functions but provides more calories and more nutritious food plus sequesters huge amounts of CO2, please check out Mark Shepard on New Forest Farm and Alan Savoury

[@noahsgardens4253]

Wendell Berry is saying at a minimum that Industrial Agriculture in not "Progress" - it is also very, very subsidized by governments in USA, Europe, and other places . Ecological Agriculture in its many variants is " Progress" because it seeks to align with Nature ( and it generally competes with Industrial Agriculture unsubidized ) , Industry that dumps its " externalities" into the air, water, soil, animals and human animals is not paying the "true costs" of their production . Ecologically sound examples of Agriculture, Building, etc. are all over youtube and the internet .

[@nevadataylor]

The problem is capitalism.

[@nevadataylor]

@Post-Left Perspective I have absolutely no idea, why so many people don't. Most all of our problems regarding our economic system, can be traced back decades ago, if we would have accepted the Science. This is nothing new -> kzbin.info/www/bejne/o16kiXWYqqmriLs