Kingsnorth's book Against the Machine does justice to this specific endeavor of your essay today Jindy. It is not the Americanisation of England but the industrial revolution starting in England and then reimported a couple hundred years later in an American upgraded version, that you have tracked and Kingsley dives into. That the sense of place has become so fleeting in our very midst is alaming. Being ghosted by our own haunts! My favorite local author and regional bronze casting and salmon sculpting artist's book is poignant here: The Blossoms are Ghosts at the Wedding, by T.E. Jay.
Otherwise we ought to be so local that the other side of the creek is another country! Le Guin's Always Coming Home serves as an erudite, anthroplological and fictional antidote to the wayward ways of our world today, as well.
The 1648 Peace of Westphalia be damned, the nation states are dinosaurs awaiting their meteorite in the impending form of climate change. The non-local world wide web is fully online here in 2026, so this is an opportunity to begin to learn to live in and reinhabit a place, in biocommunities of story, ritual, and song, co-creating with the contiguous Earth around us, our shared destiny, in the biosphere of Gaia's clear and cloudy breadth of our breathing sky.
Aho, Mitakuye Oyas'in: we are all related in the circle of life. Let it be so. Can it be so?
Rich additions and insights as always, thank you. Kingsnorth’s latest has been on my list for a while, perhaps time to push it further up! Thanks for the Le Guin recommendation too, not one I know.
You’re very right to suggest it started with industrialisation. In the UK, that originally became an embellishment of national identity for some time (Brunel’s Britain, the railways, coal mines); all then stripped away as the mutated form of capitalism was, as you say, re-imported. It is not purely American of course, but the US is perhaps the standard bearer of international neoliberalism.
Please excuse my flippancy with regard to nationalism, as my being an American in a vast continent with hardly a tissue paper's depth of history to register as a people, it is hard to conger up a social identity as enduring as in Eurasia's continuities of a people in specific geographies of place, over the millenia!
We in the USA are more and more becoming associated with our tribal cultures where we live by various ways, including names of places but primarily by the vibrant presence of the native cultures in our midst, on Turtle Island here continuously since the New Stone Age, as they are the "Dreamkeeper" of the land, for all of US latter day immigrants!
Neoliberalism I cognize now as the "Anywheres" culture having its way over and against the "Somewheres" tribe, thanks to Goodhart's erudition.
I am grateful for your responses, and the story of your family woven into the complex issues your essays address!
What a WC final set for Sunday! I lived awhile in Argentina, so, Messi and company, New World all the way!
Kingsnorth's book Against the Machine does justice to this specific endeavor of your essay today Jindy. It is not the Americanisation of England but the industrial revolution starting in England and then reimported a couple hundred years later in an American upgraded version, that you have tracked and Kingsley dives into. That the sense of place has become so fleeting in our very midst is alaming. Being ghosted by our own haunts! My favorite local author and regional bronze casting and salmon sculpting artist's book is poignant here: The Blossoms are Ghosts at the Wedding, by T.E. Jay.
Otherwise we ought to be so local that the other side of the creek is another country! Le Guin's Always Coming Home serves as an erudite, anthroplological and fictional antidote to the wayward ways of our world today, as well.
The 1648 Peace of Westphalia be damned, the nation states are dinosaurs awaiting their meteorite in the impending form of climate change. The non-local world wide web is fully online here in 2026, so this is an opportunity to begin to learn to live in and reinhabit a place, in biocommunities of story, ritual, and song, co-creating with the contiguous Earth around us, our shared destiny, in the biosphere of Gaia's clear and cloudy breadth of our breathing sky.
Aho, Mitakuye Oyas'in: we are all related in the circle of life. Let it be so. Can it be so?
Rich additions and insights as always, thank you. Kingsnorth’s latest has been on my list for a while, perhaps time to push it further up! Thanks for the Le Guin recommendation too, not one I know.
You’re very right to suggest it started with industrialisation. In the UK, that originally became an embellishment of national identity for some time (Brunel’s Britain, the railways, coal mines); all then stripped away as the mutated form of capitalism was, as you say, re-imported. It is not purely American of course, but the US is perhaps the standard bearer of international neoliberalism.
Please excuse my flippancy with regard to nationalism, as my being an American in a vast continent with hardly a tissue paper's depth of history to register as a people, it is hard to conger up a social identity as enduring as in Eurasia's continuities of a people in specific geographies of place, over the millenia!
We in the USA are more and more becoming associated with our tribal cultures where we live by various ways, including names of places but primarily by the vibrant presence of the native cultures in our midst, on Turtle Island here continuously since the New Stone Age, as they are the "Dreamkeeper" of the land, for all of US latter day immigrants!
Neoliberalism I cognize now as the "Anywheres" culture having its way over and against the "Somewheres" tribe, thanks to Goodhart's erudition.
I am grateful for your responses, and the story of your family woven into the complex issues your essays address!
What a WC final set for Sunday! I lived awhile in Argentina, so, Messi and company, New World all the way!