The Rural Voice, 1997-11, Page 29First, what if all change is not
inevitable? What if we have a
choice? I am aware that determinists
and predestinarians of various sorts
have argued that we have no choice,
no freedom of will, at all. I am also
aware that many people in the
mainstream of our tradition have
argued the opposite. It is apparently
not possible to settle this difference
by means of proofs. But we ought at
least not to forget that our idea of
human dignity and worth rests upon
the assumption that we have real
choices to make and that we are,
because of that, responsible for
ourselves. We should remember too,
that implicit in the possibility of real
choice is the possibility of choosing
wrong.
The second question, therefore,
is: What if we've been wrong?
What if farmers, farm families
and farm communities are not
expendable "extras" in the drama of
industrial progress in agriculture, but
instead are indispensable to the
health and the long-term survival of
our food supply? What if good
farmers belong inalienably to the
"land resource", and that without
them the resource would inevitably
There is much evidence the
farm population is not
expendable
decline in productivity? What then?
Well, then, we must hope to think
and work our way to a better result
than mere circumstance can bring us
to. And we must remember that,
although the farm population has
been generally regarded for half a
century as expendable, we have no
evidence that this is true, and much
evidence that it is not.
Kentucky, until now, or until
recently, has been somewhat an
exception to the rule. Our farmers
and rural communities have survived
somewhat better than those in other
places, thanks to tobacco and the
tobacco program. And it is largely
because of the intensifying threat to
tobacco that Kentucky has become
exceptional in another way:
Kentucky farmers and their allies
have moved very quickly into the
forefront of those, in this country and
elsewhere, who are working to
protect and enliven local rural
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