Against the modern mindset!
[Plus audio version] Can we today picture a world in which human beings were truly alive, throbbing with innocent joy to the rhythms and resonances of nature? […]
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Facing up to reality
[Plus audio version] My first objection to the modern world in which I found myself was, I would say, cultural. My parents later told me that even […]
The world they stole from us
[Plus audio version] I suspect that most people living in England today would find it rather difficult to picture what life there would have been like […]
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 […]
The demented drive to industrial lies
[Plus audio version] It has now been eight years since I set out, in some detail, the utter absurdity of the oft-heard suggestion that there is […]
China and the same old global mafia
[I read the article here] It never fails to amaze me that there are people out there who oppose globalism while refusing to acknowledge that it […]
Totalitarian industrial slavery: the modernisation weapon
[I read the article here) A shared emphasis on “modernisation” and industrialisation was one of the first clues I found to suggest that today’s global mafia […]
Nihilism: a modern sickness
[This is my contribution to Nevermore’s Against the Rising Tide of Nihilism series and I read it here] Many years ago I penned a (never-published) novel entitled The Extremist, which recounted the […]
Digital tyranny at the door
[Audio version] The totalitarianism of the Covid years was starting to fade in some people’s memories, as life in the UK and elsewhere seemed to […]
The night sky and the truth
Last weekend I spent a night in the heights of the Cévennes mountains, near to the source of the Vidourle. As I gazed up at the […]