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229 - Paul Kingsnorth - Civilization and Control

The Symbolic World

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You Can't Contain the Human. It's Not Possible.

We know even by the very nature of these systems that they are increasingly fragile. You can't contain an identity completely, it's impossible by definition. And so trying to do will ultimately lead to fragility and and aa shattering at some point. The new ideology is gone from 'this is the age of aquarius', we can create a utopia here' to: 'we'll literally build another world and live in that one' We've given up on nature almost like we have given up on human culture - he says.

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