Edwin

“We have reached the point where, in Ellul’s words, ‘every human initiative must use technical means to express itself.’ Once you understand this, you will see it manifested everywhere you look.”
― Paul Kingsnorth, Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity

“It is easy for me to imagine’, wrote Wendell Berry in his extended essay Life Is a Miracle, ‘that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.’ Berry wrote those words twenty years ago, and the great division he foresaw is now upon us: Life versus the Machine.”
― Paul Kingsnorth, Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity

“I’ve long found myself in the uncomfortable position of valuing nations but usually being repelled by nationalism. I’m not sure what to do about this. It seems to me that if you hold your country lightly, it will nourish you, and even complete you. Attach yourself to it needily or defensively or angrily, though, and it will make mincemeat of you just as surely as if you had marched off into the trenches singing the national anthem, only to come face to face with the machine gun nests. Maybe this position is too delicate for these times. Maybe it is just too late. Or maybe it is missing the point. The point, I think, is to be found beneath the surface layer of politics, and beneath the lower layers of nationhood, ethnicity and culture too. The point, as ever, is spiritual.”
― Paul Kingsnorth, Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity

“Projecting your dreams or desires is easiest when you know little about the place, the person, or the time onto which you are projecting.”
― Paul Kingsnorth, Savage Gods