An Interview with Derrick Jensen on Science and Technology Agaisnt Prometheus

By FRANK JOSEPH SMECKER

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.

Bill's recent thread on animism has inspired me to post a series of articles I wrote a while back about my experiences/perception of animism -- or what I have re-termed 'monism'. Note this was written for a general audience rather than for this community with its more 'advanced' conception of some of these topics. PART III

Bill's recent thread on animism has inspired me to post a series of articles I wrote a while back about my experiences/perception of animism -- or what I have re-termed 'monism'. Note this was written for a general audience rather than for this community with its more 'advanced' conception of some of these topics. PART II

Bill's recent thread on animism has inspired me to post a series of articles I wrote a while back about my experiences/perception of animism -- or what I have re-termed 'monism'. Note this was written for a general audience rather than for this community with its more 'advanced' conception of some of these topics.

This is a continuation of ideas presented in part 1, "The Giver Culture", and part 2, "Why a Giver Culture?"

Here's an article from the New York Times. While is makes the assumption that the human species is something to be aspired to. It's nice to see some chimps getting some credit. What are some other creatures that can do things better than humans?

Excerpts from the book (1970 ed.), as I read it.