In neither cases do the eccentricities do more than add a touch of spice to the broth of ideas these two periodicals serve up. broths that. although both nourishing enough in their way to those starved by the bland intellectual Big Macs served up by the Americo- cosmopolitanist prevailing orthodoxy. differ significantly. despite superficial similarity. It is a difference in some ways arising out of the vintage and provenance of the cooks serving them. 4WR. although itself founded in 1984. traces its origins back to 1966. and the launch by then peace campaigner Mr. Papworth of .
Indeed. Mr. Papworth seems to
Have accumulated the ingredients of his ideological recipe in the 1960’s and early ’70’s (Schumacher. Illich. Rachel Carson. Leopold Kohr. “Small is Beautiful”. Seymourist “The Good Life” self-sufficiencyism alas without Felicity job function email list Kendal etc.) and to have changed them little since. In particular. it retains the Sixties woolly internationalist do-goodery. sharpened into a Nineties Political Correctness with which Mr. Papworth has chosen intellectually to geld himself. He pays lip-service to the reawakened sense of ethno-cultural identity which the end of the Cold War has fostered.
Rejoices in the break up that has induced
Of artificial states such as Yugoslavia and the USSR. but although he talks of “the need to rethink national boundaries in terms of the results: immense success ethnic and bioregional realities”. when confronted with any serious discussion of such realities he prefers to bolt back into his safe Sixties liberal burrow. So did he memorably in his now infamous “sewer rat” epistle in issue 11 of this magazine. a magazine he once praised but now condemns to the Orwellian memory.
Hole because it has dared print letters
From the Politically in-Correct. Instead he plays safe. prattling of having had interesting discussions with bodies of Sikhs in East Ham whatsapp filter and of having his “Fourth World Assembly” symposia opened by his good friend “Jagdish Dhillon Singh of Coventry”. despite the questions about their and their host communities’ continuing ethnic/cultural identities posed by their presence in such places. These are questions he prefers not to ask. lest. one presumes.