buzzwords - deep ecology

ecoapocolypse
ecoapartheid
ecojustice
ecoequity
ecofeminism
anthropocentrism
ecocentric
ecosphere
androcentrism
nature mysticism
ecofascism
postmodernism
totalitarianism
authoritarianism
industrialism
racism
sexism
ethnocentrism
pluralism

ok a break from the isms:

neurophysiologists are learning to live with the possibility that there is no "central processing unit" in the brain that controls and filters everything, and that there are parallel temporal sequences going on there. For example, when you're dreaming a dream that ends up blending into the sound of the alarm clock, how does that happen? It may be that the sound of the alarm clock triggers off a dream sequence in reverse, but we reorder it in our consciousness so it's dreamt the right way.

also loved this:
When Peter Singer wrote his famous book Animal Liberation in the middle 1970s, he legitimized - because of his status as a philosopher - an area of discourse called "animal rights." This has now burgeoned into an enormous amount of writing in the ethics journals about the moral considerability of non-human beings, which wasn't there before. That was the wedge which cracked the door of anthropocentrism open. Feminism and the civil rights movement also cracked open the door, because they revealed that our ethical systems and our assumptions about selfhood were rather narrow and in need of expanding. Now deep ecology is able to attack anthropocentrism more directly.

and -

Some deep ecologists say that it would be all for the best if the industrial world were just to collapse, despite all the human suffering that would entail. If such a thing ever occurs, some people have suggested, we could never revive industrialization again because the raw materials are no longer easily accessible. I hope that doesn't happen, and yet it may happen.

whoopeee - back to the land!!!! (of course I say that now...)

Now, social ecologists say that deep ecologists flirt with fascism when they talk about returning to an "organic" social system that is "attuned to nature."

it seems too late for that now - not to mention too idealistsic - now that the GMOs have been unleashed on the crops and it's pretty hard to fight these sneaky evil geniuses...

They call not for a regression to collective authoritarianism, but for the evolution of a mode of awareness that doesn't lend itself to authoritarianism of any kind.

When you think of the above mentioned "animal rights" thingy as being only so short time ago it's quite amazing how much ideas have changed (when you think of the 50's for example)

Alan: And will it be developed in time?

Michael: Well, in time for what? It may not happen in time to save America's supremacy as an industrial power, for instance.

aaah - acceptance!

The 1990s are going to be really weird, because of millennial thinking as the year 2000 approaches.

I see this article is quite old - Summer 1989

It's a real loss for us and for the other species that are being killed. And yet, who knows what this means? Ninety-five percent of the species that ever lived are dead. Why? Evolution isn't sentimental - it does what it does. I'd like to stop the burning of the rainforests right now, but that's not going to happen. Some of it will get saved, but you know, we cut down a forest that stretched from New York to the Mississippi River and from the Gulf coast into Canada in just a century or two. We don't miss it because we never saw it.

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