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158 - Paul Kingsnorth - Environmentalism, the Tower of Babel and the Disintegration of Culture

The Symbolic World

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The Impossible Standard

The key of self sacrifice that Christ gave us is basically the key to reality. It's based on the idea that we need to put our things to service of others. And so the cell sacrifice for some people will won't be this ultimate sacrifice, but it will maybe just be like, instead of drinking the money I get from my salary, I'm going to give it to my kids. "Everything good about Western society comes from that teaching," he says.

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