By highlighting Nick's ability to find joy and richness despite facing hardship, Wendell Berry offers a countercultural vision for resisting consumerism. In a world where enjoyment of life is often taken away and sold back at a price, Berry suggests that attending to life's little joys may be key to maintaining felicitous sanity during difficult times. This idea resonates with other influential thinkers such as Hermann Hesse, Kurt Vonnegut, Viktor Frankl, and E.F. Schumacher who have also emphas...