158 - Paul Kingsnorth - Environmentalism, the Tower of Babel and the Disintegration of Culture
The Symbolic World
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The Mystery of Sacrifice
The idea that sacrifice was the core of how the world works has been there for thousands of years, he says. The greatest thing you can do as let's say the elements of a country is to sacrifice yourself to the higher ideals of that country or else. And then you give your strength, your body, your strength to those that are around you, those that are below you. If we don't do that, then we're not going to be able to be bound together,. A father has to give himself to that which is holding the family together and then give his strength and his actions down to his children and to his wife. So it's like, wait a minute. That's
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