“What does interest me is how difficult my culture seems to find it to look the dark side of life directly in the eye. It seems to me that if we look back at mediaeval culture, for example, we see a society which faces the reality of death and pain and limitation, because it has to. Our society, which is progressive and technological and seems to have a slightly fanatical utopian edge to it, gets very uncomfortable when anybody highlights the dark side of humanity, or the world we have built, or what we are doing to the rest of life on Earth.” IfsWorldLooksDoeRealitySeemsEyeEarthPainFacesHumanityCultureDifficultSidesInterestDarkExampleBuiltEdgesLimitationUncomfortableOur SocietyProgressiveTechnologicalDark SideHighlightsUtopianRest Of LifeReality Of Death Author:Paul Kingsnorth
“Certainly our cultural fallback position seems to be that our technologies will get us out of everything they have got us into. That looks like a magical thinking to me, but we don't really have a better idea.” ThinkingLooksIdeasSeemsTechnologyPositionMagical Thinking Author:Paul Kingsnorth
