Unlike many on here, I don't know Owen Jones, I've never read him except when quoted here, and I certainly had no idea what he looked like or how he spoke. Thank you for the intro, Apollo441.
Gosh he is melodramatic, isn't he? and OTT and worryingly worked up about people who disagree with him.
He says we are like Millenarians, but he is the one preaching Hellfire and Damnation to us Sinners with that glee in the detail of the eternal suffering that reminds me of somebody somewhere.. ...... oh yes, it's the preacher at the spiritual retreat in 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' -
They will remember all this and loathe themselves and their sins. For how miserable will all those pleasures seem to the soul condemned to suffer in hellfire for ages and ages. How they will rage and fume to think that they have lost the bliss of heaven for the dross of earth, for a few pieces of metal, for vain honours, for bodily comforts, for a tingling of the nerves. They will repent indeed... justice insists that the understanding of those miserable wretches be fixed continually on the sins of which they were guilty, ... They will behold their sins in all their foulness and repent but it will be too late..
[p129 in my old Penguin Modern Classics copy]
He's missed his vocation, hasn't he - he's wasted as a journalist😏