"... But there is nothing else for it; no other path is going to get us home.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, Against The Machine, p. 147
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"...as to create parallel or “alternative institutions” in which it will no longer be necessary to confront the unenlightened at all.’”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, Against The Machine, p. 144
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“The Machine is the liberal anticulture made manifest. In the new civilization it is building, culture will be made not by that magical, strange, impossible and miraculous combination of human bodies, wild nature and the soul, but by the Algorithm and the AI.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, Against The Machine
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"...but rather was the creation of an elaborate intervention by the incipient state in early modernity, at the beginnings of the liberal order.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, Against The Machine, p. 130
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"...presenting itself as the inheritor of older traditions of ‘liberty’, when in fact, it was something quite different.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, Against The Machine, p. 129
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"...is to liberate ourselves from nature in all regards, so that we may conquer the stars, conquer death, and become as gods, knowing good and evil.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, Against The Machine, p. 128-129
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"...We may be in the process of creating something unique in human history: a global anticulture, unmoored from reality and increasingly at war with it.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, Against The Machine, p. 128
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"...domination, within us daily. Human cultures can either trammel or release these desires upon the world. Our culture, such as it is, glorifies them and sets them loose and running.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, Against The Machine, p. 127
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“All of the enclosures, the destruction of alternative lifeways, the early modern revolutions, the fanning of want, the unsettling of peoples, the journeys of the Black Ships, the myth of progress: all that leads here to the triumph of technique, to the kingdom of the Machine.”
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"...one which exists to remake the world in the image of technique itself. The kind by which, today, we are all increasingly enslaved.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 116
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"...Something which we are midwifing into existence every time we click and swipe, whether we know it or not. The question is how we can begin to understand it.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 115
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"...exploited or transformed in the image of the new world which the Machine is building. ‘Open’ things, on the other hand; well, they’re easy prey.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 108
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"...destructive want. All of this creates not universal peace but universal upheaval. Like Perry's arrival in Japan, its effect is to dissolve our previous social bonds, cultural stories, social arrangements and religious commitments in a sea of open, boundless nothing.”
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"...The guidance we need for this work cannot be found in science or technology, the value of which utterly depends on the ends they serve; but it can still be found in the traditional wisdom of mankind.’”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 99
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"...This is our faith: that breaking boundaries leads to happiness, that boundaries are barriers rather than opportunities. We strain against all limits. It is who we are.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 99
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"...But culture and, generally, the quality of life, can now only be debased by such a system.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 97
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"...Even those who can see through this partial version of history and can see the damage done by our modern enthroning of money and commerce will often promote it anyway, even as just a temporary expedient.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 96
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"... the work of our time, the holy effort to which all human will, skill and energy is now bent: making money.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 94
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"...its inhabitants live in a self-annihilating moment-to-moment continuum. The poorest Stone Age savage’, Mumford concludes, ‘never lived in such a destitute and demoralized community.’”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 85-86
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"... This global network of megacities represents the Machine's core.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 85
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"...Plato, according to Mumford, ‘limited the size of his ideal city to the number of citizens who might be addressed by a single voice’. Everyone should be within hailing distance of that voice in order to ensure human-scale living.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 84
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"...A city's inhabitants are dependents: they have neither the space, the skills, the time nor the inclination to fend for themselves.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 84
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"...75 percent of worldwide energy use is in cities, and energy energy demand is outstripping population growth as those cities expand.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 83
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"...The sheer scale of the modern urban conglomeration is mind-boggling and entirely irreversible.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 83
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“A Machine civilization is an urban civilization, and its worldview and direction is that of the urban dwellers who build, justify and benefit from it.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 82
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"...can be seen as a kind of turning-in on ourselves: a radical parochialism.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 80-81
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"...and to listen instead for the old song which, however much we might think otherwise, has never stopped being sung in the woods and the waters and the around the edges of the human heart.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 77-78
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"...It's hard work to change a story, especially when the society around you affirms it at every turn.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 77
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“There is a price to be paid for fabricating around us a society which is as artificial and mechanized as our own, and this is that we can exist in it only on condition that we adapt ourselves to it. This is our punishment.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 73
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