![]() It’s something you really have to want to make work. Another issue is that so many things are changing right now with the mass movement of people into Europe. I’m not sure I can rule the world, when I can’t even rule my own family! I’ve been talking with environmental people, and what they say is that we should have a dictatorship because this is the only way you could change the situation, because people don’t want to sacrifice what they have-but in reality that would be crazy. My children use computer screens to give them instant satisfaction. When I was a child we had to make the effort to read books. All we’re doing is making things more and more effortless, more and more painless. I do all those things even though I know that’s a problem. I drink milk, I buy cheap meat, travel all over the world. Although I would do all this if I ruled the world, right now I take advantage of all the comforts of modernity. ![]() All these species are disappearing, the rainforest is being cut down, the human world is dominating even more, and I feel an instinctive sorrow about that. When I’ve said things like this before, people have accused me of being reactionary-to which I say, “Yes, I am reactionary.” But my nostalgia doesn’t go back just to the 18th and 19th centuries it goes back thousands of years. ![]() ![]() Maybe some people would say we would be moving backwards, but that’s not necessarily the case: it would help us to stop climate change. In addition, I would ban all cars and airplanes-there would be trains and bikes, and that’s it. ![]()
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