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The deep artist stumbles backwards, backwards into a past

That can’t be seen. Because that artist faces the other way,

Anticipating horrors that progress would inflict upon us all,

As evidenced by the tractors that have come to block Whitehall,

Foreseeing the destruction of our green and pleasant land

By forces such as USAID obeying the command of shady NGOs

Owned by oligarchs so rich that they have morphed into lunatics.

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So don’t delay degrowth. De-escalate the GDP.

No more artificial lawns, perpetually green, but

Denying existence to the earthworm, and leaving but a legacy

Of dirt. Do not buy into the myth that there’s no reason to

Suppose that economic advance cannot continue for

Another 2,500 years. Do not take the saw to another oak.

Do not allow Bill Gates and his ilk to run amok.

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From the Illustrated Runiad, page 497 – Book 19