Is my approach unrealistic? Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me ‘unrealistic’ to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept. Nature is realistic, and I would say that ours is the only civilisation which is not. Who else goes to bed hungry? Not the snakes or the tigers or any other animal. Nature does not need ...
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