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Everything good about the EU is in retreat; everything bad is on the rampage.
"Everything good about the EU is in retreat; everything bad is on the rampage," writes George Monbiot, explaining his about-turn.
Noosa had been morphing through different identities for 40,000 years since the Kabi tribe used it as a sacred retreat – everything from a logging town to a gold-mining centre.
The refrain is the kind of anthem you'd expect to hear employees with happy faces singing at a US corporate retreat: "Everything is awesome.
Obsessed with our pain, we will retreat from everything.
Visiting teachers lead retreats in everything from yoga to biodynamic breath work to raw foodism.
The persona in his songs -- let's call him Johnny Society, a Kafkaesque figure, sort of Joseph K. in training -- retreats from everything that confuses him (self-doubt, information overload, sexual betrayal) but isn't compelled to lie down and go catatonic.
"If you compare these kinds of experiences to the beginning of the counterculture in California when you went away into these retreats and everything," he said, "In those days, it was all about doing drugs and LSD and mescaline and basically going out of your mind for a couple of days and then on Monday getting back to work.
"Offsite strategic-planning retreats typically are able to accomplish more than meetings held on site," said Merianne Liteman, a strategy consultant based in Arlington, Va., and the co-author of Retreats That Work: Everything You Need to Know About Planning and Leading Great Offsites.
From the Lebanese president on down, the promised Israeli retreat has been called everything from a ruse to a sinister plot aimed at igniting internal religious tensions.
He moves his story out of the cocoon of its first hour and introduces a no less authoritarian political resistance to everything the retreat stands for, led by Léa Seydoux, an ideological fanatic for singleness ready to execute anyone who couples up.
