My wife, who finds herself a bit irritated with Paul Kingsnorth’s vision, offers as an alternative this video of Emma Thompson reading the final paragraph of Riane Eisler’s The Chalice and the Blade.
Whatever you might think about this vision (I quite like it myself, especially as read by Ms. Thompson), it has the two parts of prophetic speech that Walter Brueggemann describes in The Prophetic Imagination: 1) critique (in italics), 2) vision (in bold).
Transcript: For above all, this gylanic world will be a world where the minds of children—both girls and boys—will no longer be fettered. It will be a world where limitation and fear will no longer be systematically taught us through myths about how inevitably evil and perverse we humans are. In this world, children will not be taught epics about men who are honored for being violent or fairy tales about children who are lost in frightful woods where women are malevolent witches. They will be taught new myths, epics, and stories in which human beings are good; men are peaceful; and the power of creativity and love—symbolized by the sacred Chalice, the holy vessel of life—is the governing principle. For in this gylanic world, our drive for justice, equality, and freedom, our thirst for knowledge and spiritual illumination, and our yearning for love and beauty will at last be freed. And after the bloody detour of androcratic history, both women and men will at last find out what being human can mean.