New Trackways

‘Still we are severing peatlands, woodlands, for engines that claim to be so light, so fast’

IndustrialisationlornasmithersJune 18, 2021Trackways, Trains, HS2, Liverpool to Manchester Railways, Boggarts, Spirits Comment

Anti-Maskers and the Tragedy of Private Property

The anti-maskers pitching fits at grocery stores are experiencing, first hand, the tragedy of the private.

Capitalism, Commons, Community, Enclosure, Industrialisation, Protests, LandJohn HalsteadFebruary 23, 2021private property, enclosure, commons, COVID, anti-maskersComment

Ignorant as the Dawn

We are currently seeing the limits inherent in the types of understanding gained through rationality and technics. While there may have been a moment when it could be reasonably argued that new developments in the intellectual products of humanity were oriented towards the improvement of human life, there can now be no doubt that these have facilitated greater levels of immiseration and despair than ever before imagined.

Cultural Commentary, Industrialisation, Liberation Magic, Paganism, Polytheism, Ritualramon elaniMay 20, 2020Paganism, ritual, spirits, SteinerComment

“Damn Dirty Humans!”: ‘Planet of the Humans’ and Progressive Denial

“The film is asking us to come to terms with some difficult realities which we have yet to face: namely, that sustaining our infinite growth, industrial civilization on renewables is neither desirable nor possible, yet that is exactly what green capitalists are intent on pursuing.”

Capitalism, Climate Change, Corporatism, Environmentalism, IndustrialisationJohn HalsteadMay 6, 2020climate change, renewable energy, civilizational collapse, Big Green, consumption, capitalism, industrialism, Michael Moore Comments

The More-Guns-Less-Books Policy

If for our Government weapons are more important than schools, perhaps choosing a gun over a book isn’t a matter of choice, but of survival.

Capitalism, Cultural Commentary, Colonialism, Decolonization, Editorial, IndustrialisationMirna Wabi-SabiJune 25, 2019Government, books, guns, education, Violence, weapons, BrazilComment

The Wizard & the Prophet ... and the Microbiologist?: 3 Visions of Our Future

Norman Borlaug and William Vogt are, respectively, the Wizard and the Prophet in the title of Charles Mann’s 2018 book, The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World. Mann presents Borlaug and Vogt as archetypes, representatives of two different visions of humankind’s relationship with the natural world: the one viewing nature as a something to be bent to the will of humankind, the other viewing nature as something to which humankind must bend.

Book, Climate Change, Industrialisation, Environmentalism, Land, CapitalismJohn HalsteadApril 25, 2019 Comments

Land, Home, and the Gods

We cannot return to our home, any more than we can return to the wholeness that was taken from us. But we can reclaim something of our inheritance. We may light the fire in the hearth, call the gods and spirits to us, and make a new home for ourselves.

Ancestors, Climate Change, Gods, Heathenry, Industrialisation, Landramon elaniDecember 19, 2018agriculture, anti-modern, economy, health, earth, Wendell Berry, household Comments

Feed Lots

“the clear advantages

to animal and environment

standardized and certified

by the Truly Grassfed Alliance”

Uncategorized, Radicals, IndustrialisationGods&RadicalsDecember 5, 2018food, vegetarianismComment

The Path of Wyrd

"The true war against the modern world is not a war for racial or sexual hierarchy. The war against the modern world, a holy war, is debased by the bigots, who are only too quick to use it to pursue their own fantasies."

Animism, Climate Change, Gods, Heathenry, Industrialisation, Land, Paganismramon elaniNovember 20, 2018D.H. Lawrence, freedom, modernisation, industrialism, industrialization, ModernityComment

Dreams in Fire

What is needed now is reconsecration, for there are no longer any paths for us to follow. Let us proudly declare to the mountains and the rivers: we renounce the cult of humanity, we renounce the world of techno-industrial society, and we bind ourselves in reverence and service to the living gods of earth and sky.

Animism, Climate Change, Colonialism, Environmentalism, Gnosticism, Gods, Industrialisation, Paganism, Uncategorizedramon elaniAugust 15, 2018animism, Anti-Industrialism, Carl Jung, Daoism, Gary Snyder, inhumanism, Modernity, Robinson JeffersComment

The Apocalypse Will Be Brought To You by Car, Not Truck

“Cars are bourgeois and trucks are proletarian.” An analysis of the truck-driver’s strike and diesel crisis in Brazil.

Ancestors, Capitalism, Climate Change, Colonialism, Community, Cultural Commentary, Decolonization, Editorial, Environmentalism, Industrialisation, Land, Ritual, working classMirna Wabi-SabiMay 30, 2018Comment

The House of Cold Rain

To join our essence and consciousness with the world was once the common inheritance of humanity. Now, it can only be found in the hinterland, the lands beyond. Beyond techno-industrial society. For what is there to join with in concrete and steel?

Ancestors, Animism, Environmentalism, Gods, Industrialisation, Paganism, Philosophy, Poetry, Resilience, Uncategorizedramon elaniMay 11, 2018Anti-Industrialism, Carl Jung, Home, Robinson Jeffers, The Book of Invasions Comments

Opening the Seals

Death is not the enemy of life, but godlessness. The despair of humanity today is the product of centuries worth of both the denial of the spiritual life of the world and the suppression of the natural urge to reintegrate with that world.

Animism, Climate Change, Environmentalism, Gnosticism, Gods, History, Industrialisation, Philosophy, Uncategorizedramon elaniMarch 22, 2018animism, apocalypse, Carl Jung, D-H- Lawrence, Mircea Eliade Comments

The Sword Triumphant

The sword is the land. The sword is love and love for the wild. It is the love of waves that crash down upon the shore with an unquenchable fury, until it has ground cliffs into dust. It is the love of the mountain, whose heart is iron.

Ancestors, Animism, Gods, Heathenry, Industrialisation, Ritual, Uncategorized, Warriorsramon elaniFebruary 22, 2018animism, inhumanism, monism, Robinson Jeffers, ViolenceComment

A New Luddite Rebellion

From Rhyd Wildermuth

The Anima of Disintegration

Titanic forces war within us. A war waged by the blood against the intellect, between the influences of the industrial fallen world in which we live, and the primeval, fecund, blood drenched swamps that we remember in our dreams and in the shadows of the woods at night.