The critique Derrick gives on Democracy Now is what I have been also facilitating through years of writing, radio broadcasts and education, as well as activism. This is an important look at environmentalism and resistance. We need a voice like Derrick Jensen here, in Spokane, and elsewhere. So, how does that happen in a world where up is down, science is belief, ghosts are real and ocean acidification is a fairy tale?
Is civilization sustainable? Or is the Stone Age the only age that is sustainable?
Check out the interview, but still, read his stuff that make up a pantheon of great philosophy tied to the environmental movement. Also, Matt Taibbi has a great new book out,
Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America," published by Random House, 2010.
Here's his piece that ties into that stupidity --
"Taibbi: the Tea Party Moron Complex
By rallying behind dingbats and morons like Palin and Michele Bachmann, the Tea Party has made anti-intellectualism its rallying cry"
http://www.alternet.org/story/148855/taibbi%3A_the_tea_party_moron_complex?page=entire
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from Democracy Now:
Author and Activist Derrick Jensen: "The Dominant Culture is Killing the Planet...It’s Very Important for Us to Start to Build a Culture of Resistance"
Derrick Jensen has been called the poet-philosopher of the ecological movement. He has written some 15 books critiquing contemporary society and the destruction of the environment. His many books include A Language Older than Words, Endgame, What We Left Behind, Resistance against Empire, and Deep Green Resistance. We play Part I of our conversation with him. "I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet," Jensen says. "I think it’s very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we’re doing isn’t working, clearly."
www.democracynow.org
Nov. 15, 2010 show
Is civilization sustainable? Or is the Stone Age the only age that is sustainable?
Check out the interview, but still, read his stuff that make up a pantheon of great philosophy tied to the environmental movement. Also, Matt Taibbi has a great new book out,
Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America," published by Random House, 2010.
Here's his piece that ties into that stupidity --
"Taibbi: the Tea Party Moron Complex
By rallying behind dingbats and morons like Palin and Michele Bachmann, the Tea Party has made anti-intellectualism its rallying cry"
http://www.alternet.org/story/148855/taibbi%3A_the_tea_party_moron_complex?page=entire
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from Democracy Now:
Author and Activist Derrick Jensen: "The Dominant Culture is Killing the Planet...It’s Very Important for Us to Start to Build a Culture of Resistance"
Derrick Jensen has been called the poet-philosopher of the ecological movement. He has written some 15 books critiquing contemporary society and the destruction of the environment. His many books include A Language Older than Words, Endgame, What We Left Behind, Resistance against Empire, and Deep Green Resistance. We play Part I of our conversation with him. "I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet," Jensen says. "I think it’s very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we’re doing isn’t working, clearly."
www.democracynow.org
Nov. 15, 2010 show
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/08
"Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change"
by Derrick Jensen
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/4801/
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