Questionnaire

QUESTIONNAIRE
by Wendell Berry

1. How much poison are you willing
       to eat for the success of the free
       market and global trade? Please
       name your preferred poisons.
      
2. For the sake of goodness, how much
       evil are you willing to do?
       Fill in the following blanks
       with the names of your favorite
       evils and acts of hatred.
      
3. What sacrifices are you prepared
       to make for culture and civilization?
       Please list the monuments, shrines,
       and works of art you would
       most willingly destroy.
      
4. In the name of patriotism and
       the flag, how much of our beloved
       land are you willing to desecrate?
       List in the following spaces
       the mountains, rivers, towns, farms
       you could most readily do without.
      
5. State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes,
       the energy sources, the kinds of security,
       for which you would kill a child.
       Name, please, the children whom
       you would be willing to kill.