Horribly sad yes. I never found another author that can write a book that punches you in the gut. You could start reading any of his works out loud at a cocktail party and people would be throwing up and attempting suicide...
I'm honestly impressed, I quite like Jensen. He's radical, but his heart is in the right place. I joined his very excloosive web forum, I don't go much anymore. It really brings the books home when you get to chat with him about them.
That is my brand of environmentalism. Not so far as "stop walking, stop breathing, don't touch anything" anarcho-primitivism (also a religion called Jainism), but I'm on board.
He could be a disinformation agent, more of a provocateur, but I doubt it. The whole second Endgame (the series about why we need to stop human civilization at any cost right now, and you guys were worried about the Religious. It's the tree huggers that will end this world on purpose. On a Porpoise?) And the whole book is summed up as 'why are you still holding this book, put it down and go blow up a dam or a cell phone tower... Have you blown anything up yet? You're failing!' But don't let me take away from it. Certainly a very heavy book, and worth the read...
That's Derrick Jensen. I'll be here all week.
And an aside, I would love nothing more than to become a tree after death. I don't think that is how it works, but we can dream.
I'm honestly impressed, I quite like Jensen. He's radical, but his heart is in the right place. I joined his very excloosive web forum, I don't go much anymore. It really brings the books home when you get to chat with him about them.
That is my brand of environmentalism. Not so far as "stop walking, stop breathing, don't touch anything" anarcho-primitivism (also a religion called Jainism), but I'm on board.
He could be a disinformation agent, more of a provocateur, but I doubt it. The whole second Endgame (the series about why we need to stop human civilization at any cost right now, and you guys were worried about the Religious. It's the tree huggers that will end this world on purpose. On a Porpoise?) And the whole book is summed up as 'why are you still holding this book, put it down and go blow up a dam or a cell phone tower... Have you blown anything up yet? You're failing!' But don't let me take away from it. Certainly a very heavy book, and worth the read...
That's Derrick Jensen. I'll be here all week.
And an aside, I would love nothing more than to become a tree after death. I don't think that is how it works, but we can dream.
