Citizenship Papers by Wendell Berry

Author:Wendell Berry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 2011-04-06T16:00:00+00:00

Or the great innovators and decision makers build huge airplanes whose loads of fuel make them, in effect, flying bombs. And they build the World Trade Center, forgetting apparently the B-25 bomber that crashed into the seventy-ninth floor of the Empire State Building in 1945. And then on September 11, 2001, some enemies—of a kind we well knew we had and evidently had decided to ignore—captured two huge airplanes and flew them, as bombs, into the two towers of the World Trade Center. In retrospect, we may doubt that these shaping decisions were properly informed, just as we may doubt that the expensive “intelligence” that is supposed to foresee and prevent such disasters is sufficiently intelligent.

The decisions, if the great innovators and decision makers were given to reading poetry, might have been informed by James Laughlin’s poem “Above the City,” which was written soon after the B-25 crashed into the Empire State Building: You know our office on the 18th

floor of the Salmon Tower looks

right out on the

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