An economy divorced from pleasure

“This bountiful and lovely thought, that all creatures are pleasing to God–and potentially pleasing, therefore, to us–is unthinkable from the point of view of an economy divorced from pleasure, such as the one we have now, which completely discounts the capacity of people to be affectionate toward what they do and what they use and where they live and the other people and creatures with whom they live.” – [Wendell Berry, _Economy and Pleasure_](http://books.google.com/books?id=hNwHN3mQmWoC&pg=PA215&lpg=PA215&dq=an+economy+divorced+from+pleasure&source=bl&ots=cVbEgiJ8t7&sig=CqM0WGL_GlIX2dvx-Ze77WZp-6U&hl=en)