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"The West is at a fundamental spiritual dead-end with its relationship with the earth."

It's not a dead-end, but rather an infinite trench line, or ditch, between property (the civilized realm) and the wild realm. An infinite empire, if you want a cooler term. Just like D & G as well as the Situationnists observed, it's more of a shallow spirituality driven by this material schizophrenia than a kind of "spiritual crisis". I connect with what you seem to mean by "dead end" but that's just not how I'd call it.

And it's what makes me frown when anarchists in NA are advocating buying more land to develop their utopia. Same old schizo colonial pattern, rite?

At least some leftists get it right with coop land trusts, but just like reformism in general it's only an archipelago of the same old systemic psychosis; you don't need a fucking big concept and plenty of papers to "live off the land"... you just need to get there and do it.