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BowTied Bumpkin's avatar

Just finishing “against the machine” by Paul Kingsnorth.

Awesome book. Would be great for the club.

Athenaeum Book Club's avatar

Sounds interesting… I’ll talk to the team.

The Ways of a Gentleman's avatar

Fantastic job, gentlemen!

Lisa LaMagna's avatar

The CIA has rarely been on the right side of anything.

Jonathan's avatar

There is hardly any civilization left any more. The end of civilization or the old world order (such as it was) was dramatized on the blood-soaked-slaughter-fields of Europe during the two world wars.

WW1 began that destructive Process. WW2 which was an extension of WW1 finished it off.

At another more primal level sinners, who are by self-definition entirely Godless always, sooner of later create hell on Earth - have you really read the news?

Put in another was the wages and applied doings (or business) of sinners is death.

The Christian West (in particular) has always dramatized the deeply psychotic Wetiko mind-virus onto the world stage. That collective psychosis has now reached its inevitable destiny/momentum.

http://www.awakeninthedream.com/undreaming-wetiko-introduction

Bonnie Truax's avatar

Thank you for the education about an area of the world I knew little about. Really insane how little any government can be trusted and yet, people still want the government to solve their problems.

"The freedom to flourish. There is a great deal to be accomplished just by recognizing nature and building a society around that." So very true!!!

I now need to read this book!

Tom Gunner's avatar

Fascinating. I love Zimbabwe. Visited twice. I didn’t know these nuances in its decolonisation story. It’s fascinating how the West has selective amnesia for injustice and tyranny when perpetrated by non whites, be it in Gaza, Zimbabwe, Iran or Sudan. Once an ‘ethnic’ is in power looting and tyrannising the country, the West and all the NGOs lose total interest and it may as well have never happened.

Lisa LaMagna's avatar

I knew a white woman who grew up in Rhodesia now Zimbabwe - impossible to build a business there.