A few more snippets from................

 

....................................Against the Machine:

     Reactionary radicalism, then as now, is a defense of that moral economy—a system build around community bonds, local economics and human-scale systems—in the face of colonisation by the Machine.  That colonisation may come via gunboats or trade agreements, redcoats or giant superstores, enclosure acts or digital currencies, but it will always suck wealth out of place-based communities and funnel it to distant stockholders, just as it sucks the power away from local people and funnels it to national or international bodies whose interests align with those of the Machine.  It will always replace people with technology, and it will always make consumers of us all.

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Ideology is the enemy of particularity, which is why every modern revolution has ended up turning on its own people.

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Real culture—human-scale culture—is messy.  It cannot be labeled.  The moral economy rarely makes rational sense.  But it makes human sense, which is what matters.

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A reactionary radicalism could be usefully defined as an active attempt at creating, defending or restoring a moral economy built around the four Ps. (people, place, prayer, the past)

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     This, then, is my idea of an anti-Machine politics.  A reactionary radicalism, its face set against Progress Theology, which aims to defend or build a moral economy at the human scale, which rejects the atomized individualism of the liberal era and understands that materialism as a worldview has failed us.  A politics which embraces family and home and place, loving the particular without excluding the outsider, and which looks on all great agglomerations of power with suspicion.  The rejection of abstract ideologies in favour of real-world responses, and an understanding that material progress always comes with a hidden price tag.  A politics which aims to limit rather than multiply our needs, which strategically opposes any technology which threatens the moral economy and which, finally, seeks a moral order to society which is based on love of neighbor rather than competition with everyone.