An Interview with Derrick Jensen on Science and Technology Agaisnt Prometheus

By FRANK JOSEPH SMECKER

My worldview.

When I was growing up I had a certain impression of the world. And here it is.
     I imagined like the world was one giant competition, with everything competing all the time with each other. Plants, animals, everything was competing to the fullest extent of its capability. Competing to be the strongest, competing to get the food, competing to reproduce, and competing to even just stay alive.

How can anyone know if she has substantially changed? How can anyone know if she is affecting substantial change?

In a reductionist paradigm, the usual approach of the vast majority of scientists and economists and sociologists working on the world's serious problems, she would measure the initial conditions and measure the same parameters later on, and compare the two. I guess she would arbitrarily assign a value to quantify "substantial".

In which case, I could reasonably say that everyone is substantially changed every day of their lives. How fantastically useless a measurement.