“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
“The world we are in today is likely to end catastrophically, as many other human worlds have done before.” WorldHumansEndsDoneToday Author:Paul Kingsnorth
“We like to think that the fate of the Earth and the fate of human worlds are the same thing, but we're not as important as that.” ThinkingWorldHumansImportantEarthFate Author:Paul Kingsnorth
“We enjoy telling ourselves that we will soon be gods, masters of the planet, manipulating the genes of living creatures and rebuilding the world at a nano-level as we lie back in our hammocks, attended by our robot servants. I don't believe a word of it, and I'm not sure many of us do.” WorldBelieveLyingEnjoyLevelsPlanetsMastersCreaturesDon't BelieveServantNot SureGenesRobotsLiving CreaturesRebuildingHammocksNano Author:Paul Kingsnorth
“Еhere's no doubt at all that the Norman conquest led to the hugely concentrated land ownership patterns that we still see in Britain today. Some of Britain's biggest landowners are still direct descendants of Norman barons. And given the impact that Britain has had on the world over the past few hundred years, you could perhaps say this was a global issue. History is always with us.” WorldYearsStillsTodayPastGivenIssuesDoubtLandHundredDirectImpactPatternsNo DoubtBritainOwnershipConquestOver The PastDescendantsGlobal IssuesNorman Conquest Author:Paul Kingsnorth
