b'indignation and resignation, the spectacle of Jihad vs. McWorld 4on the evening news. We put our IRAs into index funds. We donate. Those of us of a certain disposition divest of weapons manufacturers and tobacco stocks and fossil fuel companies. We steer investments towards B. Corporations and other companies that account for social and environmental impacts in proactive ways.Which doesnt get us all the way to peace of mind.Much less, all the way to peace.Thoreau said, Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. After dining chez Wendell Berry, he would have said, Beware of all investments that do not elicit affection. Below the bottom line, earthworms. Above the top line, smiles.Affectionate smiles. Heavenly smiles. Earthly smiles. Smiles smiled by demigoddesses, after the ecological economists have left the dinner table. Smiles that dont seem to have anything to do with collusion between endorphins, neuronal signals and the firing of the zygomaticus major and orbicularis oculi muscles. Smiles that get smiled at the thought of 1.3 million earthworms per acre on an organic farm in Boone County, Iowa. 54 Jihad vs. McWorld is the title of Benjamim Barbers 1995 book.5 A case study of 300-acre Thompson Farm, in Toward Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the 21st Century, cited, by way of comparison, an average of 19,000 earthworms per acre on conventional farms in the same county. (National Academy of Sciences, 2010, p. 382)9'