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Jeff Rich

Melbourne
As seen in: Burning Archive, Nature, Carnegie Science, Earth.com, Oxford American, Pearls and Irritations
Jeff Rich, writer & historian. Rethink the world with history at jeffrich.substack.com/ and www.youtube.com/@theburningarchive
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Conrad, Heart of Darkness #3 the banality of civilisation and the humanity of savagery

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By Jeff Rich
| Burning Archive
In the third episode of the Slow Read of Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness we read the passage from pages 23 to 35, taking us through Marlow’s trek up the Congo, meetings with the European colonial agents, until the wreck of his steamboat enforces a stop, and a confrontation with the savagery of civilization.
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Why I Never Fell for Modern Love But Did Learn to Let Go of Liquid Modernity

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By Jeff Rich
| Burning Archive
Do you identify as a modern person? Or, in more abstract terms, do you belong to modernity? Do you pursue the freedom of modern life? Are your beliefs brand-conscious yet custom-made, as befits modern thought, where everybody is free to feel good and no one has the time to read the classics anymore? Do you choose the sometimes anxious, shaky attachments of modern love?
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Civilizations in History and Nature. Special Program Part Five

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By Jeff Rich
| Burning Archive
The great grasslands of the earth - the North American Prairie, the African Savannah and the Eurasian Steppe - have hosted societies as diverse as the Sioux, the Songhay and the Scythians. They have yielded experiments in civilization that have changed the world, such as Mali and the Mongols. But why does the Steppe of the nomadic Horde still haunt the Western civilized imagination?
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