"The
modern cultural ethos-which some have called cosmopolitanism-
does not acknowledge living well in a particular
place as a condition of what philosophers have always
considered to be the good life. Instead, the modern ethos
privileges mobility, acquisitiveness, and status as the essentials
of a happy life.. The difference between a happy life and a good life
is the difference between lives governed principally by ethical
deliberation and lives governed principally by pleasureseeking.
I According to Wendell Berry, in the modern era
people [began] to live lives of a purely theoretical
reality, day-dreams based on the economics of
success. It was as if they had risen off the earth
into the purely hypothetical air of their ambition
and greed. They were rushing around in the clouds,
"getting somewhere," while their native ground,
the only meaningful destination, if not the only
possible one, lay far below them, abandoned and
forgotten, colonized by machines. (1989, p. 66)"
Sense of Place Among Rural Youth in Appalachia
Craig B. Howley, Hobart L. Harmon, and Gregory D. Leopold
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