Really good interview. Paul Kingsnorth puts his finger on the deeper issues underlying the current covid wars. If you don't have time to listen to the whole thing, might I suggest listening to:
1: Kingsnorth's opening statement, 1:30-7:00
2: Key bottom lines, 27:30-30:30
1: Kingsnorth's opening statement, 1:30-7:00
2: Key bottom lines, 27:30-30:30
https://twitter.com/freddiesayers/status/1465719268583038985
... but if you listen to those two passages, you'll probably wind up listening to the whole thing, which is to the good. It is worth it.
Scrolling through the (twitter) responses to Kingsnorth's views, I note many violently rejecting him and denouncing him as "anti-vaxxer" and the like. Which is truly crazy. They are missing the point and demonstrating only that they are incapable of grasping what he is saying.
He is their intellectual superior, but they can't see it. They represent the worst of the "thesis" camp (defined by Kingsnorth in passages above), which seems mentally disabled in such a way that renders them unable to discuss the broader context to which Kingsnorth adverts.
Oh btw, Kingsnorth's "thesis" and "antithesis" camps are about the same as the "cosmists" and the "terrans" described here:
The covid and vaccine wars are the first skirmishes in this great larger war.
https://twitter.com/alan2102z/status/1379162295155224576
The covid and vaccine wars are the first skirmishes in this great larger war.
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