Paul Kingsnorth - Is There A Retvrn From The Edge?
Subversive w/Alex Kaschuta
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Is There a Claim That the Ancestral English People Have?
i think it's because britain was such a big empire. And the same thing is true of america now, right? So, if you've run half the world, and then your empire collapses, for all sorts of reasons, lots of people don't like you. But there's also a kind of cultural self loathing amongst the english elites,. which has been around for a long time. Only george orwell was writing really well about it in the 19 thirties. Am, he said, it's the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. That that was my feeling as well. It's exactly that sort of, youknowta,
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