~~~ Derrick Jensen ~~~
"If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the
isolation. There is a whole world waiting for us, ready to welcome us home."
Derrick Jensen cannot be called just an activist, or a "survivor" of child abuse, or just a dreamer. His thinking is not either/or, he is a man growing strongly out of terror, and helping us look at all the other terror, beauty, and possibilities that surround us. He makes it a little easier to hold our eyes open.
When we see the kind of courage that created A Language Older than Words, we have to look at how each of us choose to turn away rather than face what seems to big to change; what evokes fear; what we refuse to admit is the world that together, we have created. Derrick reminds us that by seeing, by listening, together we can make it better.
Derrick speaks about The Culture of Make Believe, a follow up to A Language Older that Words, in our 2/6/02 talk.
"Things do not need to be the way they are. We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on children, on all of us through the possibility of nuclear suicide and other means--all these are unprecedented in their magnitude and ferocity." (From Derrick's first book, Listening to the Land) We have asked his questions ...Why do we act as we do? What are sane and effective responses to outrageously destructive behavior? What will it take for us to stop the horrors that characterize our way of being? This is why he writes...why he does not go out to blow up a dam...he is looking for the third solution.
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