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Paul Kingsnorth's Four Ps

Paul Kingsnorth's Four Ps

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
Neil Gorman 24 Nov 2025

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