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What he said…
The Dark Mountain Project’s “Eight Principles of Uncivilisation” bear a thoughtful read. These fellows are based in the UK. Their wonderfully literate web site is in my blog roll.
‘We must unhumanise our views a little, and become confident
As the rock and ocean that we were made from.’
1. We live in a time of social, economic and ecological unravelling. All around us are signs that our whole way of living is already passing into history. We will face this reality honestly and learn how to live with it.
2. We reject the faith which holds that the converging crises of our times can be reduced to a set of‘problems’ in need of technological or political ‘solutions’.
3. We believe that the roots of these crises lie in the stories we have been telling ourselves. We intend to challenge the stories which underpin our civilisation: the myth of progress, the myth of human centrality, and the myth of our separation from ‘nature’. These myths are more dangerous for the fact that we have forgotten they are myths.
4. We will reassert the role of story-telling as more than mere entertainment. It is through stories that we weave reality.
5. Humans are not the point and purpose of the planet. Our art will begin with the attempt to step outside the human bubble. By careful attention, we will reengage with the non-human world.
6. We will celebrate writing and art which is grounded in a sense of place and of time. Our literature has been dominated for too long by those who inhabit the cosmopolitan citadels.
7. We will not lose ourselves in the elaboration of theories or ideologies. Our words will be elemental. We write with dirt under our fingernails.
8. The end of the world as we know it is not the end of the world full stop. Together, we will find the hope beyond hope, the paths which lead to the unknown world ahead of us.
Not the brightest bulbs in the pack. And definitely not compact fluorescents.
As the man said,
“We have discovered that a good portion of the science used to justify “climate change” was a hoax perpetrated by leftist ideologues with an agenda.”
—Todd Young, new congressperson from Indiana
“I absolutely do not believe that the science of man-caused climate change is proven. Not by any stretch of the imagination. I think it’s far more likely that it’s just sunspot activity or something just in the geologic eons of time where we have changes in the climate.”
—Ron Johnson, new senator from Wisconsin
“I think we ought to take a look at whatever the group is that measures all this, the IPCC, they don’t even believe the crap.”
—Steve Pearce, new congressperson from New Mexico
“It’s a bigger issue, we need to watch ‘em. Not only because it may or may not be true, but they’re making up their facts to fit their conclusions. They’ve already caught ‘em doing this.”
—Rand Paul, new senator from Kentucky
“There isn’t any real science to say we are altering the climate path of the earth.”
—Roy Blunt, new senator from Missouri
Heard any good myths lately? Yeah, you have.
The crux of the problem is that human thought is mythic by its very nature. We think with myths, as inevitably as we see with eyes and eat with mouths. Thus any attempt to bring about significant social change must start from the mythic level, with an emotionally powerful and symbolically meaningful narrative, or it will go nowhere.
John Michael Greer
It’s all in our heads
To change our economics, science, religion, or our intimate relations with humans and nonhumans, we must fundamentally change our consciousness, and in so doing fundamentally change the way we perceive the world. Try to see the patterns. Look. Look again, and look a third time. Listen.
Derrick Jensen, A Language Older Than Words 2000