"...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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"...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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"...To throw it off. If it is ‘the pursuit of the ideals and methods of modern science that has brought us into this catastrophic situation, clearly they can be no issue from it without the renunciation of those ideals and methods.”
~ Paul Kingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 77
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"...And one of the fruits of modern science, clear for all to see, and implicit in the philosophy on which it is based, is the dehumanisation both of man and of the society that he has built in its name.’”
~ Paul Kingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 77
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"...But ‘now that we begin to see the consequences of our capitulation to it—and we are only now beginning to see these consequences—we are not so sure.”
~ Paul Kingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 75
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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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“Science, right from the beginning of the modern enterprise, was allotted the role that the Church had previously claimed for itself: the primary guide to truth, and enlightener of humanity. More than a method, it was a faith.“
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 70
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“An ideology built on remaking nature for human needs will inevitably include human nature in that project. Humanity can no more survive the mechanistic or scientific revolutions intact than can the forests or the oceans.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 70
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“[I]f a machine is the metaphor you use to represent other living beings, then a machine is what you will make of the world.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 69
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"...Awkwardly, this takes in not only Bezos’s Star Trek future, but most of the modern world as well, including pretty much the entirety of the modern West.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 63
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