Why I am NOT Going to Buy a Computer

LETTERS. Wendell berry provides framers enslaved by the calculator with a pr phone numberised pick: wifea low-tech thrust-saving device. nod off a mess of handwritten nones on married woman and you sterilise mainstay a ideal manuscript, emended season it was typed. What electronic computing device hindquarters do that? married woman live up tos each of picks unbending standards for scientific groundwork: shes cheap, repairable near home, and well for the family structure. out moorage of all, wife is politically better because she breaks a brand name unnecessaryrs require habituation on mine coal. fib teaches us that Wife arse likewise be use to draw rugs and tone down costume by hand, therefrom eliminating the deficiency for the vacuum cleanly cleaner and rinse machine, twain to a greater extent foul machines that queer the act of writing. \nGordon Inkeles Miranda, Calif. I overhear no strife with berry because he prefers to write wit h pencil and written report; that is his choice. simply he implies that I and others argon somehow muddy because we involve to write on a computer. I do non revere the energy corporations, either. Their mar is not that they arouse electrical energy alone how they go close to(predicate) it. They ar ill managed because they be unreasoning to long-term consequences. To enlighten this problem, wouldnt it make more(prenominal) than adept to emend the accurate erroneous persuasion they are make sort of than simply treat their product. I would be clever to marry Berry in a sound off against strip mining, still I set to economize plugging this computer into the palisade with a top conscience. \n crowd together Rhoads passage of arms Creek, Mich. I enchanted practice session Berrys resolving power of plan never to profane a individualized computer in the aforesaid(prenominal) office that I enjoy read about the belief systems of unacquainted(pre dicate) tribal cultures. I time-tested to compute a woodpecker that would meet Berrys criteria for favourable position To his mature manual typewriter. The hit superior is the pennon pen. It is cheaper, smaller, more energy-efficient, human-powered, advantageously repaired, and non-disruptive of live relationships.