158 - Paul Kingsnorth - Environmentalism, the Tower of Babel and the Disintegration of Culture
The Symbolic World
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The Importance of Denying Yourself
There's a connection there between the Zen Buddhism I used to practice in Christianity. The notion of the necessity of denying yourself and detachment, that that's the way to ease your suffering is precisely the same actually. If you're attached all of this stuff, you're going to lead yourself into hell and you'reGoing to lead the world into hell as well. It has to tell us the story that glorifying ourself will make us happy. We just kind of go for broke and take what we want. And mysteriously enough, it doesn't work. There might be a reason why every society up until this point in history had a kind of a structure and a sense of the divine and need
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