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Guess Our'MericanTraitorTots are thinking it's high time to ship the brown innocents out of their ConcentrationCamps to make room for all the dissidents, all the Ragers/ Rioters/AgainstTheMachine, all 🩵's & anyone else in their way they will then label as [their version of] 'EnemiesOfTheState'....
September 30, 2026 at 3:19 PM
gadflyacademy.bsky.social
"...one which exists to remake the world in the image of technique itself. The kind by which, today, we are all increasingly enslaved.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 116
February 3, 2026 at 2:56 PM
gadflyacademy.bsky.social
"...Something which we are midwifing into existence every time we click and swipe, whether we know it or not. The question is how we can begin to understand it.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 115
January 31, 2026 at 3:01 PM
gadflyacademy.bsky.social
"...exploited or transformed in the image of the new world which the Machine is building. ‘Open’ things, on the other hand; well, they’re easy prey.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 108
January 30, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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We the people! Say #NoKings
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January 28, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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We the people! Say #NoKings
#rage #againstthemachine
January 28, 2026 at 7:23 PM
gadflyacademy.bsky.social
"...The guidance we need for this work cannot be found in science or technology, the value of which utterly depends on the ends they serve; but it can still be found in the traditional wisdom of mankind.’”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 99
January 26, 2026 at 4:34 PM
gadflyacademy.bsky.social
"...This is our faith: that breaking boundaries leads to happiness, that boundaries are barriers rather than opportunities. We strain against all limits. It is who we are.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 99
January 25, 2026 at 6:18 PM
gadflyacademy.bsky.social
"...But culture and, generally, the quality of life, can now only be debased by such a system.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 97
January 24, 2026 at 6:49 PM
gadflyacademy.bsky.social
"...Even those who can see through this partial version of history and can see the damage done by our modern enthroning of money and commerce will often promote it anyway, even as just a temporary expedient.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 96
January 22, 2026 at 2:47 PM
gadflyacademy.bsky.social
"... the work of our time, the holy effort to which all human will, skill and energy is now bent: making money.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 94
January 20, 2026 at 2:45 PM
gadflyacademy.bsky.social
"...its inhabitants live in a self-annihilating moment-to-moment continuum. The poorest Stone Age savage’, Mumford concludes, ‘never lived in such a destitute and demoralized community.’”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 85-86
January 19, 2026 at 8:59 PM
gadflyacademy.bsky.social
"... This global network of megacities represents the Machine's core.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 85
January 17, 2026 at 3:59 PM
gadflyacademy.bsky.social
"...Plato, according to Mumford, ‘limited the size of his ideal city to the number of citizens who might be addressed by a single voice’. Everyone should be within hailing distance of that voice in order to ensure human-scale living.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 84
January 16, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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"...A city's inhabitants are dependents: they have neither the space, the skills, the time nor the inclination to fend for themselves.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 84
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January 14, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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"...75 percent of worldwide energy use is in cities, and energy energy demand is outstripping population growth as those cities expand.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 83
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January 13, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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"...The sheer scale of the modern urban conglomeration is mind-boggling and entirely irreversible.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 83
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January 12, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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“A Machine civilization is an urban civilization, and its worldview and direction is that of the urban dwellers who build, justify and benefit from it.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 82
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January 10, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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"...can be seen as a kind of turning-in on ourselves: a radical parochialism.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 80-81
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January 9, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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"...and to listen instead for the old song which, however much we might think otherwise, has never stopped being sung in the woods and the waters and the around the edges of the human heart.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 77-78
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January 8, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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"...It's hard work to change a story, especially when the society around you affirms it at every turn.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 77
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January 8, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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"...To throw it off. If it is ‘the pursuit of the ideals and methods of modern science that has brought us into this catastrophic situation, clearly they can be no issue from it without the renunciation of those ideals and methods.”
~ Paul Kingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 77
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January 6, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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"...And one of the fruits of modern science, clear for all to see, and implicit in the philosophy on which it is based, is the dehumanisation both of man and of the society that he has built in its name.’”
~ Paul Kingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 77
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January 5, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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"...But ‘now that we begin to see the consequences of our capitulation to it—and we are only now beginning to see these consequences—we are not so sure.”
~ Paul Kingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 75
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January 5, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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“There is a price to be paid for fabricating around us a society which is as artificial and mechanized as our own, and this is that we can exist in it only on condition that we adapt ourselves to it. This is our punishment.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 73
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January 2, 2026 at 2:06 PM