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I agree with Paul Kingsnorth about many things. Maybe even most. Like Paul Kingsnorth—an English writer living in west Ireland—I believe that the most pressing issue for humanity in 2025 is how we respond to the threats presented to humanity by the internet age. Like Paul Kingsnorth, I fear a global monoculture: a flattening and mechanistic vision of human beings linked into society only by the twin inchoate energies of information and capital.
Tara Isabella Burton is the author of ‘Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians,’ ‘Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World,’ and three novels, most recently ‘Here in Avalon.’ She blogs on art, magic, enchantment, faith and technology at her Substack, The Lost Word.
