Our task is not to return to an idealized past, or to fetishize and appropriate the cultures of Indigenous peoples. Rather it is to determine which aspects of the current dominant society bring us into conflict with the rest of the natural world, to identify the historical junctures out of which these characteristics arose, and to imagine alternative paths society could take.

What distance must I maintain between myself and others if we are to construct a community without collision; sociability without alienation; and a form of individual freedom that may imply solitude but not isolation?

∆ Katja Haustein, "How to live alone with others: Notes on the Ethics of Tact"

“Magic was also an obstacle to the rationalisation of the work process and a threat to the establishment of the principle of individual responsibility. Magic seemed a form of refusal of work, of insubordination and an instrument of grass roots resistance to power. The world had to be disenchanted, in order to be dominated.”