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Paul Gilk
In the twelfth century, an Italian monk named Joachim caught the attention of the Christian West by announcing the Three Ages of the World. Joachim arrived at his formulation by…
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In the early 1970s, living in inner-city St. Louis, Paul Gilk asked his friends to explain why small farms were dying. The answers did not satisfy. Years of study followed.
Argues that the accelerating ecocidal characteristics of ‘globalization’ are inherent manifestations of perfectionist, utopian, predatory institutions endemic to civilization. This book also argues that ‘civilization’ contains no negatives, and is…
The common understanding of apocalypse suggests End Times, Armageddon, and the end of the world. But the Greek word apokalypsis means none of these things. What it does mean is…
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In November 2010, Republican Scott Walker was elected Governor of Wisconsin. In something of a Tea Party sweep, the iconic Russ Feingold lost his seat in the U.S. Senate and…
Growing up in the mostly wooded rural countryside of northern Wisconsin, in the decades immediately after the Second World War, meant immersion in cultural transformation. An economy of subsistence and…