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Paul Kingsnorth's avatar

I am about to go away until early next week, and I won't be on't Internet during that time, so I can't engage with any further comments here for now. But keep them coming, and I'll look forward to digging in next week. Thanks to you all.

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Good article. I spent most of my life on the far left: communist, anarchist, green neo-pagan, etc. In the end, a few years ago I could no longer recognize the lefties I grew up with. The Green Left used to look to Schumacher, Zerzan, and Fredy Perlman. Now they look up to Bill Gates. The 180 degree about face to Machineophilic environmentalism and politics, combined with the woke revolution, has completely turned me off of that side of the political spectrum. Of course, the conventional Right is just as disgusting as always, but those who are being labelled fascists I find quite simpatico. The life and work of Pentti Linkola is a shining beacon to our debased times. Lately, I have often been called an ecofascist. I do not identify with this term, since, as we all know, fascism was a Machine-ideology, but I take it as a sign that I am going in the right direction. Sometimes if a world gone mad can't find the words to applaud those still right in their heads, the people fighting for truth, beauty, and goodness, have to receive their nourishment and encouragement through the hatred of the robotic masses. At any rate, we need to transcend the left-right divide and think only of the Divine, which we are all part of, and which also penetrates every cell, every atom in the realm of manifestation. As Lawrence wrote:

"Now above all is the time for the minorities of men,

those who are neither bourgeois nor bolshevist, but true to life,

to gather and fortify themselves, in every class, in every country, in every

race.

Instead of which, the minorities that still see the gleams of life

submit abjectly to the blind mechanical traffic-streams of those

horrors

the stone-blind bourgeois, and the stone-blind bolshevist;

and pander to them."

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