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Expect the End of the World with Paul Kingsnorth

Speaking with Joy

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The Rain Forest, You Can't Calculate Chaos

I think the thing i often think about machines is a machine merciless. It has cogs and gears, and you're either a part of it or you're going to be crushed. But people can't calculate chaos. They can't calculate how much money you can make off of an arangitang teaching its baby how to eat for ten years. And so then you see this great these huge palm forests. And that's, to me, this picture of the mach n verses life. I remember quoting him one of my essays, he said, i thought when i first moved down to this farm that it would be possible to basically step back from the world and write some poetry. He

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