Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity (Paul Kingsnorth)

A bold and insightful, but somewhat flawed, exposition of what is wrong with the modern world, and what to do about it.

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"In the Book of Daniel, the prophet interprets Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of an awesome statue. It boasts a golden head and silver body, but it has feet of iron mixed with clay. And when those feet are smashed, the precious metals collapse, becoming “like dust on the summer threshing floor, and a great force of wind blew them away.” Paul Kingsnorth sees what the Faustian West has built as this statue, a mighty yet inhuman and flawed idol to Progress, fated to come to the same end. He sees this demise as good and inevitable, if traumatic. I am not so sure. Regardless, this is the question of the age—which way, Western man? . . ."