Self-awareness is good, but…

From a post by Paul Kingsnorth on his Substack. A culture is not the same as a civilization. The latter is built from the top-down, by the use of coercive power. The former emerges from the bottom-up, from a combination of what I call the Four Ps: people, place, prayer

From a post by Paul Kingsnorth on his Substack. Christianity turns power on its head. This is not the same as rejecting power. It is, instead, transforming it. God’s power is not human power. Our petty little attempts to impose our will by dominance, force and violence mean nothing

From Inventing the Future, by Nick Srnicek & Alex Williams If politics without passion leads to cold-hearted, bureaucratic technocracy, then passion bereft of analysis risks becoming a libidinally driven surrogate for effective action. Politics comes to be about feelings of personal empowerment, masking an absence of strategic gains.” Yeah.