
Novara FM: Revenge of the Commoners w/ Jon Moses
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The Psychopathic Detail of Improvement
I've been reading these general agricultural surveys from the early 19th century. They give us an insight into the mindset of people who termed what they were doing as improvement. So that's how they kind of understood it. The landscape gets drained, you know, all the animals that thrived in that environment get pushed off and within the commons as well. There's an absolutely relationship between people who wanted to push life off the land and extinguish life from it as well. I think the more we have a kind of rich, vibrant, weird, rural culture in this country, the more we'll see a rich, vibrant,. weird nature as well.
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