Paul Kingsnorth talks to Dominic Frisby

Only just found this. Great stuff. Having met and spoken briefly to Dominic on 31 January last year, i have become a keen follower. Glad I got to this 😁

Just found this (2020) too few people have seen this (10,884 views) (362 likes?) (8 dislikes???) This makes so much sense, thanks for clearing the mist away. More people need to see this.

Great conversation, gentlemen 👍

Wow! What a find. That was the most clear minded coming together of minds that I've experienced in a long time. Dominic, thank you for putting Paul out there. Paul, thank you for being who you are. You are very wise, very self aware and I think you know pretty much everything you need to. I'm jealous. I wish I could have joined in your discussion. You guys rock!

Excellent discussion. Many thanks.

I'm glad to hear other people making the connection between smaller organizational groups and environmentalism. If you think about it, like Mr Kingsnorth has clearly done, any move away from huge political organizations is a move in the right direction. Hence the true green politics must be Brexit, simply because it moves us in the right direction. Logic must prevail.

This is a great video Dom, I hope people share it around.

Excellent Thank you both

Excellent guest, excellent discussion.

Missed this at the time. One of the last people I'd have imagined you sitting down with! All good though. I interviewed him too a few years back.

The comment that struck a chord with me: "[build a house] Which ought to be a cheap and simple thing to do." My father built his own house after he retired. When I had a mortgaged house, I finished off the basement and did all of the landscaping. So I know I have the skills necessary to do this. I know how much the raw materials cost, which I could handle. But there are no owner built houses being created here, despite huge housing costs, and wide open spaces between developments. It is legally impossible to buy an acre of land or three and build your own house on it. So the idea of starting with a small home, and gradually improving and enlarging it as your time and energy allows, and your desire drive, is prevented.

Great stuff 👏

What a great discussion Paul kingsnorth & Dominic Frisby have either of you heard of political party called patriotic alternative. Its new and spreading across the UK. 🇬🇧

We are always in a dialogue with our surroundings, the place and the people, we are relationships not individuals. Further, as we are constantly growing or dying, we are never finished ‘products’, we are processes.

As a slightly-right libertarian I tend to see the left as an enemy, but this environmentalist guy is awesome - this interview shows that the same conclusion can be reached from totally different starting points, but both starting points are valid and not necessarily in opposition

The free market is only analogous to anarchism if there is a distributive form of governance, a direct democracy. A free market with a large centralised government, representative democracy, is prone to corruption, exploitation and monopolies. Adam Smith warns of this, but it is rarely mentioned. Great conversation. Thanks.

Very thought provoking!

thanks fellas , truth seekers are a rare breed these days , endangered species , enablers like poor old Julian are on very thin ice

@Matthew Bowers I'm glad you said that. I'd describe my political views as left-leaning, but stripping away the circus that constitutes most political debate there's certainly things I agree with from the right. The main thing for me is getting away from concentrations of power (just like Dominic and Paul were discussing), regardless of whether that's political power or economic power or cultural power. I don't want to be ruled by a superstate, and nor do I want to be ruled by large corporations. An unanswered question for me is whether you can balance the two so one limits the damage of the other. What's your position on this?

Wrong reasons but right conclusions .!