If there is no household or community economy, then family members and neighbors are no longer useful to one another, and . . . family and community fails, and people fall into dependence on exterior economies and organizations. The hegemony of professionals and professionalism erects itself on local failure, and from then on the locality exists merely as a market for consumer goods and as a source of "raw material," human and natural. The local schools no longer serve the local community; they serve the  government's economy and the economy's government. Unlike the local community, the government and the economy cannot be served with affection, but only with professional zeal or professional boredom. . . . This love cannot exist, because it makes no sense, apart from the love of a place and a community.

Wendell Berry, "The Work of Local Culture," from What Are People For?