158 - Paul Kingsnorth - Environmentalism, the Tower of Babel and the Disintegration of Culture
The Symbolic World
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The New Jerusalem Is a Balance Between the Wild and Civilization
There's an interesting image because you can see, if you look at the story of the fall, you can notice how technology is an answer to the fall. And then you can see this kind of pendulum swing between what you could call the wild and civilization. The biggest example is, of course, the flood, which is a coming in of the wild to take revenge on excess of order. But right away after the flood, what is the first thing they want to do is they want to build a tower. So it's like, if they ever flood comes again, we'll be safe.
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