The latter is far more difficult and challenging. Either we have enough time to change minds, and thus effectively change the culture of the entire planet; or it’s already far far too late and we’re all doomed. The Norwegians (just a few of them, in fact) took out (with, ahem, force) the Nazi’s heavy water plant, a crucial piece of their nuclear program. In most locations north of Equator, the shortest day of the year is around this date. If that’s confusing, think about what agriculture is: you take a piece of land and destroy all visible plant and animal life on it; use plows to destroy the structures of the soil underneath; replace them all with one monocultural species; repeat. It’s all related. You have written long responses but have not even acknowledged any of my questions. Robert Riversong (#43), if I’m understanding you correctly, you’re arguing a form of the “walk away” model. Rather, it is the way that changing my own actions contributes to changing cultural values and norms. Still today, I have many beloved colleagues who refuse to resign as savior. One thing I hear you saying is that the state does not have a monopoly on violence. We can’t just consume differently. It is really from the fact that he tells us that he wants more activism and protest. And as for the Jews, Jensen has pointed out, rightly, time and again, that the Jews who rose up and fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Sobibor Uprising had a better chance of surviving than those who went quietly to the camps. The fact is, we don’t have that right. Golf courses and Corporate domination would be gone. Consider a language which has only one “word”, a signed gesture of the hands to show a circle — that sign would represent the planet. Scientific consensus is that emissions must be reduced by at least 75 percent worldwide. Does it pose any threat whatsoever to those who are destroying the planet? And then some. American Rivers released a report called “Hidden Reservoir” that lists 8 steps communities should take to save water (and money) — like updating development codes, metering all water users, and pricing water appropriately. Who to trust? And what happens if we apply the justice at Nuremberg to the Reagan administration? Industrial civilization is not a projection of my own inner demons. Likewise that every year we lose a few more of the handful of remaining indigenous languages, and therefore, all or nearly all of their stories, myths, wisdom, spirituality, medicine, technology, knowledge of how to live sustainably, and so on. Bathing in the river, drinking from the river, cooking soup with river water. Moreover, to refuse to fight back as effectively as possible is to value my luxuries, my relative freedom, my so-called life over future generations, over the planet, over my own dignity. The famous American Quaker, John Wolman, said in response to Royal Governor William Penn’s discomfort with wearing the ceremonial sword: “Wear it until thou canst.”. Perhaps you’re not as irredeemable as you came across. To Lorraine typing as I was typing. Gandhi, MLK, Caesar Chavez, Dorothy Day were of that kind. They might have been alienated by a raw activist type, but a green consumer was a bridge to a new way of thinking… and acting. Further, the Abenaki lived where I now sit for thousands of years, and they did not deplete the forests, the cod (now locally extirpated), the passenger pigeons (fully extinct), the lobsters, the aquifers, the topsoil, and so on. Hell, the school building is named for Andrew Goodman, an alum who fought and died for civil rights. I think part of it is that we’re in a double bind. However that does not absolve me from acting responsibly with regard to how I live my life. Why Japanese people are comfortable with nakedness. What you dismiss as “ahistorical” is, in fact, the hidden history of modern civilization. In fact, please help them in any way you can. I’m not even sure the majority of people here actually believe climate change is real or that humans have anything to do with it. He is saying to resist by all means necessary. But he won’t. I was reading 181cm now I am hardly reading 174-176cm (From the back of my head) Forehead is 173cm. My clothes are all second-hand. 7. And again, perhaps this is because we have had a wonderful, sunny day here in where I live in Maine, a rare event this summer and much needed. It seemed that David cared about the readers, cared that we “got” it. Whew. Right on. On a larger scale this was repeated in the Philippines during the 1986 overthrow of dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Rather, the growing preference to manipulate, divert or alter interrupted the very essence of natural living, natural livelihood and the natural relationship that existed with the land. Not to mention, those who have reduced needs and commitment likely have more time to engage at the civic level. As Anne Wilson Schaef so eloquently expressed it way back in 1987, society has become an addict. To step aside as industrial civilization, or capitalism, or patriarchy, or Leviathan, or Goliath, or whatever you want to call it commits further atrocities is A) utterly callous and a complete abdication of our responsibility to those we purport to love and B) just postponing the inevitable confrontation when Goliath catches up with us. You chastise “You are refusing to express solidarity with those who use force against the oppressive system.” But you’re not asking for solidarity with a cause (which I’ve always voiced) but acceptance of tactical violence in service to the cause. I will be a terrible activist if I am not motivated for right reasons and am not living the lifestyle I preach. He has also some VERY interesting articles on the politics of consumption & what he calls “the empty self.”. Amanda (#6), it is really good that you (like me) bring tupperware for your leftovers at restaurants. The CIA now houses “black sites,” actual concentration camps, in Poland. So I began to read the thinking of those who were ahead of me on that curve of devising solutions. The earth has been progressively destroyed, the commons have been cordoned off, and ordinary workers “live” in an ever-diminished, ravaged environment. “It would be fair to say that agriculture is the first example of a truly monotechnic approach; an approach that set a pattern for all of civilization’s future technologies. Being militant does not mean being bloodthirsty. Including the plow. Same goes for the Lenape who lived for eons where I spent my 20’s. You presume far too much. Order your copy here. One solution is to base profit and price on the true cost of manufacture. World-denying fundamental religion is the shadow of that paradigm. I know him, and he speaks of his dreams more than anyone I’ve met except indigenous people, Sufis, or Jungians. I’m all for building alternative structures. Almost every night on the local news there’s an item about how small communities and even cities are being forced to lay off firefighters, police, social service workers, teachers, and others whose services and skills are still desperately needed but there’s no more $ to pay them. When a woman is being raped (and something like 25% of American women are raped at some point in their lives), I think her first goal, and the first goal of anyone who might help her, must be to stop the rapist, and to do so by all means necessary. It runs on very real oil. What are we going to do when we all develop tumors? That the Quakers showed solidarity with not only the Black Panthers but, much earlier, with the Underground Railroad, only underscores my central point: that those who choose the path of non-violent resistance should support their fellow resisters who choose militancy.
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