An Interview with Derrick Jensen on Science and Technology Agaisnt Prometheus

By FRANK JOSEPH SMECKER

FORGET SHORTER SHOWERS: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change

By Derrick Jensen

WOULD ANY SANE PERSON think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workday, or that chopping wood and carrying water would have gotten people out of Tsarist prisons, or that dancing naked around a fire would have helped put in place the Voting Rights Act of 1957 or the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Then why now, with all the world at stake, do so many people retreat into these entirely personal “solutions”?

I'm excited. I recently found out that Derrick Jensen will be a guest on our local radio station. I've been waiting awhile. I first suggested they have him on about five years ago now. I'm glad there were others that did the same, usually it takes more than one person's suggestion (like the show host's good friend) to make something like this happen.

Hey all,

I know that most of you would agree with what Derrick is saying here, but I thought some of you might be interested because he is picking apart some of Dawkin's logic. The excerpt is out of Derrick's new book What We Leave Behind.

Hey all,

For those interested, Aric McBay, coauthor of What We Leave Behind, was on television (LINK) yesterday talking about peak oil, the collapse of civilization, Derrick Jensen, resistance movements, etc...

Hey all,

Awhile back I posted this article. At the time Derrick was working on What We Leave Behind so I couldn't post the excerpt I wanted to. But now since WWLB has been publishd I can post it. 

Hey all,

I don't know how many of you participate over at the Derrick Jensen Discussion Forum, so I thought I would post this excerpt about technology and magic out of his soon to be published book WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND. I think it is useful, especially if you have read THE HOLY, by Daniel Quinn.

Hey all,

Some of you might be interested in this exchange with Daniel Quinn about Derrick Jensen over at the Ishmael Community Guestbook.

The Jung Center, Houston presents:

The Culture of Make Believe
featuring a conference call with  author and activist
Derrick Jensen
 Thursdays, 7:30 - 9 pm
Jun 5 - Jul 10
$70 ($60 Jung Center members)
Limit: 15 In this class we will discuss the critical issues of our age - the shadows of consumption and exploitation undergirding modern industrial civilization.  Derrick Jensen's enlightening tour-de-force, The Culture of Make Believe, examines the cultural and psychological roots of racism, slavery, colonialism, the indigenous holocaust, and modernity's compulsion for environmental destruction.  His writing is said to break your heart, then heal it.  His page-turning prose, provocative arguments, and compassionate solutions for an ecopsychology of sustainable living will drive our discussion and thinking.  In the final week, we will have a conference call with the author to pose our questions, comments, and concern for the future.

Note *** Please read up to page 83 before the first meeting.               
 http://www.mitchfinn.com/Classes.htmlfor official reservations, see:
http://www.junghouston.org/courses/summer/finn.htm

The Jung Center, Houston presents:

The Culture of Make Believe
featuring a conference call with  author and activist
Derrick Jensen
 Thursdays, 7:30 - 9 pm
Jun 5 - Jul 10
$70 ($60 Jung Center members)
Limit: 15 In this class we will discuss the critical issues of our age - the shadows of consumption and exploitation undergirding modern industrial civilization.  Derrick Jensen's enlightening tour-de-force, The Culture of Make Believe, examines the cultural and psychological roots of racism, slavery, colonialism, the indigenous holocaust, and modernity's compulsion for environmental destruction.  His writing is said to break your heart, then heal it.  His page-turning prose, provocative arguments, and compassionate solutions for an ecopsychology of sustainable living will drive our discussion and thinking.  In the final week, we will have a conference call with the author to pose our questions, comments, and concern for the future.

Note *** Please read up to page 83 before the first meeting.               
 http://www.mitchfinn.com/Classes.htmlfor official reservations, see:
http://www.junghouston.org/courses/summer/finn.htm