🐰 Down The Rabbit Hole 🕳️
“Across the spectrum, from conservatives to liberals, Marxists to fascists, believers to atheists, very little serious criticism of the entwined myths of progress, growth and materialism will ever be heard in the public sphere. Ultimately, most of us accede to our sovereign happily or otherwise.”
~ Paul Kingsnorth, Against The Machine, p. 40
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Greetings, dear newsletter subscriber,
Happy new year!
Most of our public debates today revolve around politics—left vs. right, fascism vs. Marxism, freedom vs. control. But what if these debates don't actually address the real problem?
In my latest installment, I explore Paul Kingsnorth’s haunting reflections on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the deeper spiritual force we call “Progress.” Kingsnorth suggests that while we’re distracted by political "enemies," technology, Big Data, and the elites are quietly reshaping our relationship to nature, transcendence, meaning, and what it means to be human.
This is, and isn’t, necessarily a conspiracy. We’ve built systems so powerful that we no longer control them, we’ve trained ourselves to value only what can be measured… and in the process, we’ve learned to ignore everything that actually makes life worth living.
Hope to see you this evening! Have a great weekend, and we'll see you again soon!
Hope you had a wonderful Christmas, and I wish you many blessings in the new year!
Warmly,
Herman
PS: Here's the (updated!) book study schedule:
January 1: 7:30pmEST
Pages 206-229
January 8: 7:30pmEST
Pages 230-272
January 15: 7:30pmEST
Pages 273-318
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