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    Paul Kingsnorth 'draws a line' over mandates Archived Message

    Posted by Ian M on December 1, 2021, 12:03 am





    Took him a while... Some liberal positions of the importance of debate, narratives, something called 'democracy', but a useful, sympathetic fleshing out of the two sides that are emerging over this and how it has slipped into the 'ruts' of the pre-existing culture issues such as Brexit, Trump's election etc. Think he's right to sound the alarm over the biomedical route to technocratic tyranny, though it's going to need more than personal refusals and nice, well-spoken arguments to fight against it. Don't forget, this is all a rehearsal for (indeed is probably part of) the big social upheavals on their way because of climate change, peak oil, biodiversity crashes etc. Stuff the state gets away with instituting now will be baked in to how it will respond to those much greater calamities, as I'm sure the ones driving these policies are fully aware.

    cheers,
    I

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