Sublime

We deploy knowledge and ideas that carry indubitable prestige to stand guard against the emergence of more humble but essential knowledge from our emotional past. We bury our personal stories beneath an avalanche of expertise. The possibility of a deeply consequential intimate enquiry is deliberately left to seem feeble and superfluous next to the

No One Is an Island

reconciled

Keep small, vote mainstream, and nod like it all makes sense. Yet here she is, asking for trouble. Acting like what she does might matter.

It is optimistic, because it believes it knows exactly how to fix the problems of the human community – and how to fix them for ever. It is unscrupulous, because of the cheerful way it is prepared to sacrifice the lives of any who get in the way of its ultimate self-realisation.

We should have the courage and determination to maintain a state of resolute irresolution, because that is all our situation honestly allows us.

As Alan Greenspan declared in 2016, “populism is not a philosophy or a concept, like socialism or capitalism, for example. Rather it is a cry of pain, where people are saying: Do something. Help!”[326]

misplaced sense of rightful dominion over local communities, landscapes and wildlife. Reading their proposal in the same