The world we are in today is likely to end catastrophically, as many other human worlds have done before.
Paul KingsnorthWe enjoy telling ourselves that we will soon be gods, masters of the planet, manipulating the genes of living creatures and rebuilding the world at a nano-level as we lie back in our hammocks, attended by our robot servants. I don't believe a word of it, and I'm not sure many of us do.
Paul KingsnorthI think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.
Paul KingsnorthI do think that the legacy of the Norman conquest is still strong in Britain. Our hereditary monarchy, our established church, our ancient county structures, though hollowed out in many ways, are a direct result of what happened in 1066.
Paul Kingsnorth