High On Progress

What will be left when we finally come down?

by Derrick Jensen

WHY HAVE WE come to assume that “progress” is always good? The Nazis’ treatment of Jews progressed toward their final solution. And many individual Jews followed a line of progress: get an ID card, move to a ghetto, get on a cattle car, arrive at a camp, work at the camp, go to a gas chamber, get put in an oven, rise as smoke, fall as ashes.

RESISTANCE RESISTERS 

It's time to lead, follow, or get out of the way

by Derrick Jensen

ANOTHER 120 SPECIES went extinct today; they were my kin. I am not going to sit back and wait for every last piece of this living world to be dismembered. I’m going to fight like hell for those kin who remain—and I want everyone who cares to join me. Many are. But many are not. Some of those who are not are those who, for whatever reason, really don’t care. I worry about them. But I worry more about those who do care but have chosen not to fight. A fairly large subset of those who care but have chosen not to fight assert that lifestyle choice is the only possible response to the murder of the planet. They all carry the same essential message—and often use precisely the same words: Resistance isn’t possible. Resistance never works.

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.