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KAM's avatar

God speed your way! I think this book will help us understand the opportunities and dangers before us.

I’m especially interested in how we can rediscover visual symbolism as “the language of creation” (M. Pageau) for the re-enchantment of our world.

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Rachel Welsh's avatar

Good luck Mary! I’m very much looking forward to reading the new book when it’s published x

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Screwtape316's avatar

I'm here for it...take my money!

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David Atkinson's avatar

like an affectionate uncle...

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Screwtape316's avatar

Indeed. Glubose sends his regards...

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David Atkinson's avatar

Mwahabahaah

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Daniel O'Sullivan's avatar

I've vaguely had the same thoughts though not as coherently as yours. I've picked up a few old penguin books of essays and they are incredibly erudite and learned and I find I haven't the patience to read them. I hear about big tomes on interesting subjects and I'd rather read an article precis-ing the books than actually read them. The internet is a tower of Babel and we aren't all running on the same tramlines anymore. Good luck with your book

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Mrs. Horsley's avatar

A very interesting proposition from Mary Harrington.

Though I'm not reconciled that it's just the internet that has us rolling backwards.

I just read a piece by Mark Crispin Miller about how the mRNA jabs compromised recipient's pineal gland making them more prone to violence. I can't assess the veracity of that claim, but a mass experimental injection program aught to have some visible downstream effect, even if it was just the psyoping of everyone into opposing camps.

But there are cooperating administerial bodies determined to impose Degrowth economies on us--take away private vehicles, international travel (via a carbon credit system) and ration goods including clothing and food. So to me, I'm fairly convinced that Peak Oil was real and that we are near the end of abundant ((cheap)) fossil fuels. The operant word is cheap. Without floods of that dense, intense energy source, we can't help but go back ... everything about our current social arrangements is propped up by abundant cheap oil.

And there is nothing that can replace it. Certainly not electricity--don't get me started on that lol!

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Ross Royden's avatar

I, for one, do indeed wish you luck, Mary! It’s such good news that you are writing another book, and its subject matter seems most timely. I hope you can keep the two going but if you can’t and have to pause, be assured we will be here waiting for your return. It will be fun seeing where the rabbit hole leads you.

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Natasha Burge's avatar

Already looking forward to reading this

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Kevin Simpson's avatar

you refer to living the 17th century in reverse and observing things that are happening and will likely happen. In my simple mind, the windmills I see planted all around the countryside in spite of abundant hydrocarbons are also evidence of that phenomenon.

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Susan Lapin's avatar

I'm delighted that you have another book in the works. I looked up the word 'capition' and I still don't understand what you mean by that mention in this context, "the re-capitation of the monarch."

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Eleanor Bowman's avatar

I think it is a playful opposite of de-capitation; so while removing the monarch's head, removes the monarch as head, re-capitation is restoring the monarch as head. Just a guess... but it had me scratching my head for a while, too.

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Elizabeth Hamilton's avatar

Me too. I was thrilled to come across a word I didn't know but very de-thrilled when none of the dictionary or encyclopedia articles my search led to were able to shine any light on what Mary meant.

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Laura's avatar

My guess is that it means the monarch will become a ruler again, not a figurehead.

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Elizabeth Hamilton's avatar

That's fitting.

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Claire Khaw's avatar

The technology required to propagate ideas is irrelevant to what beliefs it is necessary for us to hold if we are to remain in existence from generation to generation. Why not write a book about how we can tell if our beliefs are correct?

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Disek Jong's avatar

Your beliefs...necessary to remain in existence... is indeed most important to our being though no one now seems to hold that judgement. And a book about how to tell belief correctness ha now that's quite the request in a time when again no one seems set to the task, even as it would be most vital instruction.

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Claire Khaw's avatar

Your comment restored in me some faith in humanity, thank you!

Our beliefs are indeed our identity.

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Richard North's avatar

You are about the only contemporary writer who invites me to look at our world today in a different way, and are usually convincing. So good luck with the book.

Your words enabled me to see a small event in my life in a different way. I look after the walking group in my local U3A. Our website is very clever - too clever for most of our members - and one thing it does is allow anyone who looks at our website and is a bit tech savvy to send an email from it to any of our group leaders.

This week I got an email from France written in perfect English inviting us to get together with one of their local walking groups. This could be the germ of a post-WW2 "twinning" initiative.

Only (and this is where what you wrote landed with me) the person in France described their group members as Bretons.

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Christine Heaton's avatar

Good luck, Mary! I look forward to the book and all the tidbits along the way. Your writing and interviews have helped me make sense of a great many things in regard to the state of women in the world today, and how we got here.

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Ouessante's avatar

I enjoyed your conversation with Paul Kingsnorth where each was described at the start, hilariously, as the thinking woman or man's other. I think you are digging in fertile ground.

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David Atkinson's avatar

can you write me into your book as a character, preferably one more attractive than I am with high levels of swashbuckling skills??

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Allen's avatar

I pay annually and am totally cool if some of that helps with this project. Enjoy your weekend, Mary!

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Brian Villanueva's avatar

Yeah! It sounds like a wonderful project, Mary. I'll look forward to it.

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