Now, if the Anthropocene Awards are ever produced for star-quality performances, nominate Patrick. Why bother to learn from others when you can stamp out their knowledge instead? And this was superhero-level stamping-out. Unless, more likely, Patrick is just a diversion, superimposed on history to blot out the druidic take on the universe.

The Collins Dictionary traced the root meaning of the word druid to the term oak-wise. We need more oak wisdom.

But a 5^th-century Roman Catholic “patron saint of Ireland” had no use for it…

Read more of Patrick in the Anthropocene, now published at CounterPunch.

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