Reversing Climate Change · 2026-06-22 · 6 min
In the last Reversing Climate Change podcast episode , Tom Mills and I started talking about "Jerusalem ["And did those feet in ancient time"]" by William Blake (1810) , and the 1916 hymn by Sir Hubert Parry that seemingly all Brits know in their souls. I only knew about it due to a childhood obsession with the dvd boxset of Monty Python's Flying Circus , where in the S1E4 episode, "Owl-Stretching Time", Eric Idle sings this song while being seduced. Unfortunately, I cannot find a good link to this sketch... I can't say I ever fully understood what was happening beyond just the earnestness and absurdity of the situation, but somehow Tom helped me unlock it. In any case, this is a very very quick dip into Romantic poetry (industrialism bad, nature good; analysis bad, intuition good; simple good, complex bad), William Blake's prominence in films like Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man and HBO's tv series Westworld by way of his poem, "Auguries of Innocence" , and how sometimes a work can actually be this simple and stand the test of time.
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