> ... as speed increases, care declines. And so, necessarily, do the skills of responsibility. If this were not so, we would not restrict the speed of traffic in residential areas. We know that there is a limit to the capacity of attention, and that the faster we go the less we see. This law applies with equal force to work; the faster we work the less attention we can pay to its details, and the less skill we can apply to it.
#WendellBerry #OnSpeed in #TheUnsettlingOfAmerica p.97
got me thinking of Vanderbilt's Traffic

Just watched "Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry" a very appropriately contemplative restatement of #TheUnsettlingOfAmerica critique of industrial agriculture vs the community positives of rural culture. Opening segment is gy!be and a dark berry-read poem over koyaanisqatsi esque footage, and I would have been fine if the whole movie was that, but it's moving as a standard interview-and-clips docu too.