A character in his most recent novel Alexandria (Graywolf Press, 2020) receives comparable directions while astral-projecting.
There’s also his preference for only eating things he finds just outside his house.Ī few years back, Kingsnorth seems to have realized that for his main preoccupations, which we might describe as the destruction of the natural world and the erosion of real human liberty (in that order), writing fiction would give him a longer reach than the classical forms of activism that had been his life’s work. His bitterness toward society and prophecies about the end of the world are two. Paul Kingsnorth may not qualify as one of the desert fathers he may indeed see the world with more of a pagan wyrd than a Christian hope, but he does have a few things in common with these saints. Quite why this works is a puzzle, but it has something to do with credibility. Go off-grid, and you gain a bigger audience than you would do preaching on a street corner.
Nearly two millennia ago, a group of Christian ascetics sometimes referred to as the desert fathers discovered an interesting trick: withdraw from society and, paradoxically, you gain social capital.
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