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“The point to focus on is this: that when a culture built around such a sacred order dies, then there will be upheaval at every level of society, from the level of politics right down to the level of the soul. The very notion of an individual life will shift dramatically. The family structure, the meaning of work, moral attitudes, the very existence of morals at all, notions of good and evil, sexual mores, perspectives on everything from money to rest to work to nature to kin to responsibility to duty: everything will be up for grabs.

The West, in short, was Christendom. But Christendom died. What does that make us, its descendants, living amongst its beautiful ruins? It makes ours a culture with no sacred order. And this is a dangerous place to be.”

~ Paul Kingsnorth, Against The Machine, p. 7

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Greetings, dear newsletter subscriber,

We begin our book study today! Well...it's really just a soft start, as we will begin discussion of the actual content (Introduction, Chapters 1 & 2) next Thursday. That said, if you'd like to join me this evening, I will be live-streaming on the Gadfly Academy YouTube channel beginning sometime between 8pm and 8:30pm (EST) (moving forward, we will have a strict 7:30pm start time!)

In this week's video and blog post, I discuss Kingsnorth's book in historical perspective: Against The Machine is the latest (and arguably the greatest) book in a venerable tradition of anti-machine writing.

If not this evening, I hope you will at least join us next week for the book study! Even if you don't read the book, and just join us for the discussion, I'm sure you will find it of interest!

You can find the full schedule on this week's Substack post:

👉 Watch the video here

👉 Read the article here

Have a great weekend, please track down a copy of Paul's book (you won't regret it!), and we'll see you again next week!

Warmly,

Herman

PS: Do you know of someone who might be interested in the book study? If so, please forward this email on to them!

PPS: Here are the first dates of the book study schedule:

October 23:

8:00pmEST (flexible start time (only this one time), should begin no later than 8:30pm)

• Introduction to Paul Kingsnorth, his book, etc.

October 30:

7:30pmEST (start time from here on out should be quite firm!)

• Pages xiii-21