Sublime

Rage is the capacity to interrupt a given state and make a new state begin. Today it is yielding more and more to offense or annoyance [Ärgernis], “having a beef,” which proves incapable of effecting decisive change.

The anti-consumerist, back-to-the-land, small-is-beautiful, civilisation-hating, progress-questioning ideology of degrowth, limits and retreat is hegemonic not just on the green left, but across the political spectrum. Far from being central to progressive thought, this cauldron of seething, effervescing misanthropy is in fact utterly alien to the

It’s time for progressives to remind themselves of the dark origins of anti-modernism, and understand that however well-meaning many of its supporters may be, this ideology is reactionary with respect to social progress and ultimately won’t ‘save the planet’ anyway.