Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
The long-awaited companion piece to Derrick Jensen's immensely popular and highly acclaimed works A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe. Accepting the increasingly widespread belief that industrialized culture inevitably erodes the natural world, Endgame sets out to explore...
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The long-awaited companion piece to Derrick Jensen's immensely popular and highly acclaimed works A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe. Accepting the increasingly widespread belief that industrialized culture inevitably erodes the natural world, Endgame sets out to explore how this relationship impels us towards a revolutionary and as-yet undiscovered shift in strategy. Building on a series of simple but increasingly provocative premises, Jensen leaves us hoping for what may be inevitable: a return to agrarian communal life via the disintegration of civilization itself.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781583227305 (158322730X)
ASIN: 158322730X
Publish date: June 6th 2006
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Pages no: 495
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Environment,
Nature,
Biology,
Ecology,
Culture,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Social Issues,
Activism
Series: Endgame (#1)
To summarize 400 plus pages: We can’t live without clean water and healthy land. Our culture destroys both and will continue to do so. So why aren’t we stopping this? More importantly, how do we stop this?Jensen fills his book with anecdotes, factual nuggets and some lecturing. It’s unfocused a...
There’s a scene early in Asimov’s Foundation when Hari Seldon is on trial for sedition (he’s been prophesizing the collapse of the Empire) and the prosecutor asks him about the group of people he’s assembled, if they’re there to save the Empire. Seldon replies (and I paraphrase freely since I don’t ...
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