How shall I live my life? -On Liberating the Earth From Civilization is the title of Derrick Jensen’s new book, a series of interviews/discussions with ten people who have devoted their lives to underming the destructive dominant culture.
Derrick’s introduction:
We are in the midst of an apocalypse. This culture is killing the planet. Resistance must take many forms, from the physical to the emotional to the intellectual to the legal (and illegal) to the philosophical and so on.
The people interviewed in this book have all made powerful contributions to helping us see our way toward resisting this deathly culture. David Edwards helps us to disentangle ourselves from some of the illusions that keep us tied to the system. Thomas Berry helps us to remember what it feels like to be connected to ‘the natural order of things’ . Carolyn Raffensberg turns this culture’s use of science on its head. Kathleen Dean Moore asks that most central of all questions: How shall I live my life? And Vine Deloria talks about the fundamental differences between western and indigenous ways of being.I offer this book – these conversations with these and other authors – to strengthen readers’ necessary and often desperate resistance to this culture’s onslaught against all that is natural, all that is wild.
Information about Derrick Jensen’s books:
http://www.derrickjensen.org/published.html
