Is this really normal?
[Plus audio version] It is astonishing how most of us spend our entire lives assuming that our modern industrial existence is completely normal. We think that it […]
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Breaking free from this modern hell
[Audio version] “I regard modern society as shabby, tawdry, and incredibly stupid; destructive and self-destructive beyond belief”. [1] So writes Morris Berman in a new […]
The psychopaths in power
[Plus audio version] “Imagine – if you can – not having a conscience, none at all, no feelings of guilt or remorse no matter what you […]
Our stolen lives
Where once there was song, now reigns silenceWhere once there grew roots, now run roadsThe dreams of the children are drowned in confusionNo birthright, no […]
Darren Allen’s Self and Unself
“Philosophy which was once the pursuit of wisdom has become the possession of a technique”, as the great Indian thinker Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan once warned. (1) […]
Fleeing the Black Volcano of Industrialism
The monstrous Black Volcano which has loomed and leered menacingly over Happy City since it was founded has finally erupted. Vast rivers of lava are […]
Henry Miller – resisting the virus of modernity
The American writer Henry Miller (1891-1980) is not primarily remembered as a critic of industrial civilization – he is better known, maybe, for his love […]
The new French resistance
Something very important is happening in France at the moment. The immediate catalyst for this historical turning-point has been the murder, by gendarmes, of a […]
Imprisoned by assumptions
Assumptions are the highest walls of the prison in which the human spirit is currently confined. The most pernicious assumption of all is that industrial […]
A Dreadful Disharmony
The other day I read an inspiring interview with environmental philosopher Pierre Rabhi in the French newspaper Libération. Although he’s known for his life’s work […]