Derrick Jensen
Derrick Jensen
Derrick Jensenis an American author and radical environmentalistliving in Crescent City, California. According to Democracy Now!, Jensen "has been called the poet-philosopher of the ecological movement."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth19 December 1960
CountryUnited States of America
environmental degradation economy
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.
spring giving long
The process of schooling does not give birth to human beings - as education should but never will so long as it springs from the collective consciousness of our culture - but instead it teaches us to value abstract rewards at the expense of our autonomy, curiosity, interior lives, and time.
responsibility civilization lifestyle-choices
Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary responsibility to oneself, and to focus primarily on making oneself better, is an immense copout, an abrogation of responsibility.
police green purpose
A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.
soul culture sustainability
We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.
sleep gun people
Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for a place to sleep, and we have to pay for food. If we don't, people with guns come and force us to pay. That's violent.
lying onions layers
Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.
doe pacifism
Love does not imply pacifism.
limited-time cases ifs
If you only had a limited time to life (which is of course the case), how would you spend your time?
civilization occupation culture
From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.
home waiting wish
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.
simple evil black
Violence, and evil, doesn't always come dressed in black, and it doesn't always look like Charles Manson. Nor does it always come to us as obvious and arrogant[...]. Often it comes to us with the simple plea to be reasonable.
reading sleep thinking
I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not do, wishing we were outside or simply elsewhere, wishing we were reading, thinking, making love, fishing, sleeping, or simply having time to figure out who the hell we are and what the hell we're doing.
disrespect arbitrary body
I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect for direct experience and a negation of the body.