"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
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A World of Make-Believe
January 4th, 2015We live in a world of make-believe. Think of it as a little game–the only problem being that the repercussions are real. Bang! Bang! You’re dead–only the other person doesn’t get up. My father, in order to rationalize his behavior, had to live in a world of make-believe. He had to make us believe that […]
Read More... Filed in Book excerpts, EssaysClaims to Virtue
November 30th, 2014It’s not possible to commit deforestation, or any other mass atrocity—mass murder, genocide, mass rape, the pervasive abuse of women or children, institutionalized animal abuse, imprisonment, wage slavery, systematic impoverishment, ecocide—without first convincing yourself and others that what you’re doing is beneficial. You must have, as Dr. Robert Jay Lifton has put it, a “claim […]
Read More... Filed in Book excerpts, EssaysAgainst Forgetting
July 1st, 2013Last night a host of nonhuman neighbors paid me a visit. First, two gray foxes sauntered up, including an older female who lost her tail to a leghold trap six or seven years ago. They trotted back into a thicker part of the forest, and a few minutes later a raccoon ambled forward. After he […]
Read More... Filed in EssaysThe Emperor’s New Penis
June 21st, 2013By Derrick Jensen and Lierre Keith Men have been silencing women for ten thousand years and it’s happening still. At the “Law and Disorder Conference” in Portland, OR, on May 11-12, two women were peacefully tabling, handing out literature, and selling books from our organization, Deep Green Resistance. A group of five queer activists came […]
Read More... Filed in EssaysThoughts on the Apocalypse: Fight for What You Love
May 2nd, 2013terrain.org asked a number of writers what the “apocalypse” means to them, how the idea of impending global disaster factors into their work, what weight the impending end-of-life-as-we-know-it adds to their daily lives. They asked for a comment on the situation, for reactions, suggestions, and artistic engagements. How should we respond to the fact that […]
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