Destroyed by Acquiescence

Wendell Berry | Will Business Leaders Protest Trump’s Whims? | The Geography of Work | Portfolio: How Notetaking Becomes Knowledge

source: NYTimes

Much protest is naïve; it expects quick, visible improvement and despairs and gives up when such improvement does not come. If protest depended on success, there would be little protest of any durability or significance. History simply affords too little evidence that anyone’s individual protest is of any use. Protest that endures, I thin…