Daniel Quinn Da Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera. Daniel Quinn (Omaha, 1935) è uno scrittore statunitense, conosciuto per il suo libro Ishmael che gli garantì la vittoria del Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award nel 1991, un concorso istituito da Ted Turner per romanzi che proponessero soluzioni originali a problemi globali come la crisi ambientale e la fame nel mondo. Comunemente definito filosofo ambientalista, egli tuttavia rifiuta questa definizione, dato che ritiene implichi una falsa dicotomia (prettamente politica) tra ambiente non-umano e ambiente umano, che in realtà sono la stessa cosa, e tra gente a favore dell'ambiente e contro le persone e gente a favore delle persone e contro l'ambiente. Distinzione secondo lui assurda,[1] perché se si è a favore dell'ambiente si è a favore anche delle persone, dato che esse dipendono dall'ambiente per esistere. Viceversa, se si è contro l'ambiente si è contro anche le persone. Sono anche disponibili delle estensive FAQ in italiano.[4]
Withdraw Consent and Starve the System In my last C4SS column, I argued that the real significance of Occupy Together is not its effectiveness in pressuring the 1%’s state to enact reforms, but rather in showing the 99% our own strength. We’re an entire society in ourselves, the producers, and we don’t need the 1% — it’s they who would starve without us. Those involved in developing the building blocks of a counter-economy outside the corporate state — the free software movement, the crypto and digital currency movements, the micromanufacturing and permaculture movements — should engage in educational outreach on the possibilities for meeting our own needs without paying tribute to the 1%. I’d like to expand on that. Far more important than anything Occupy Wall Street achieves as a pressure movement, is what it will achieve as an education movement, teaching people ways to sustain themselves through peaceful production, cooperation, sharing and trade with other producers — all outside the corporate system. What next?
Confessions of a recovering environmentalist Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity … and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is imagination itself - William Blake Scenes from a younger life # 1: I am 12 years old. I do find my way home; I manage to keep to the path and eventually catch up with my father, who has the map and the compass and the mini Mars-bars. Only later do I realise the complexity of the emotions summoned by a childhood laced with experiences like this. Scenes from a younger life # 2: I am 19 years old. This is Twyford Down, a hilltop east of Winchester. From outside it is impossible to see, and most do not want to. Someone I don’t know suggests we dance the maze. I am 21 years old and I’ve just spent the most exciting two months of my life so far in an Indonesian rainforest. During my trip, there were plenty of all of these things. And I remember the small islands north of Lombok where some of us spent a few days before we came home. What took hold How it ended
Grand Strategy: The View from Oregon Observational Epidemiology Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life By Daniel Quinn / ishmael.com (Excerpted from the book, The Story of B) With every audience and every individual, I have to begin by making them see that the cultural self-awareness we inherit from our parents and pass on to our children is squarely and solidly built on a Great Forgetting that occurred in our culture worldwide during the formative millennia of our civilization. What happened during those formative millennia of our civilization? What happened was that Neolithic farming communes turned into villages, villages turned into towns, and towns were gathered into kingdoms. We can hardly be surprised that the forgetting took place. By the time anyone was ready to write the human story, the foundation events of our culture were ancient, ancient developments - but this didn’t make them unimaginable. In the absence of any other theory, it seemed reasonable (even inescapable) to suppose that the human race must have begun with a single human couple, an original man and woman. Q. A. Q.
Why Occupy Wall Street Was Right in Not Focusing on Washington: The Challenge to Moderate and Liberal Local Leaders And try saying “Liberal local leaders” three time fast. Anyway, much of the chattering class, which has had its irrelevancy pointed out by the Occupy protest (note to pundits: the people supporting these protests don’t care what you think), has been arguing that these protests need to focus on Washington. But, whether by design or accident, focusing on multiple areas has been very helpful. One thing I’ve noticed is that virtually all of the protests are happening in left-leaning, Democratic urban areas. Even in ‘red’ states (Republican strongholds), the protests are usually in the more liberal regions of those states. This presents a serious problem for moderate-liberal local politicians who typically govern these areas, as most law enforcement responses are being conducted at the local level. This is not only smart tactically, but strategically. Like this: Like Loading...
Shade Gardening: Purple Oxalis -- Oxalis regnellii 'Atropurpurea' Purple Oxalis -- Oxalis regnellii 'Atropurpurea' Going by whatever name you know it as, this is truly a wonderful plant. The Oxalis Genius has over 800 recognized species throughout the world. So considering the length of this article and TIME I will only talk about one, the Purple Leaf Oxalis. This particular species is native in Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay. It was first cultivated in the United States in 1930. I have admired this plant for a long time. My Mother had given a friend of hers a couple of these plants two years ago. The root or rhizome is an interesting thing in itself. The book on this plant is part-shade (at least protection from the hot afternoon sun), rich moist sandy soil, zone 7-11, height 6"-10" spreading to 12" spacing 9"-12". It's TOUGH, PERSISTENT, and RESILIENT.
End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation (9780767915878): Barry C. Lynn Jeremy Has Spoken (But Rest Assured, Pro Money Management Isn't Listening) Jeremy Grantham endeared himself to resource depletionists once again this week, as the longtime manager at asset giant GMO confronted the issue of limits, in a finite world. | see: Time to Wake Up: Days of Abundant Resources and Falling Prices Are Over Forever. I wrote about Grantham’s original revelations in late 2009, when he first disclosed to the public his views on resource depletion, and in particular peak oil. Like the rest of us who’ve attempted to explain the trailing, cultural normalcy bias that’s been built up over the past 100 years, however, Jeremy’s discovered that having spoken—even from the mantle of GMO—doesn’t mean asset management professionals will pay attention. I was unsurprised to read Jeremy Grantham’s passing lament in his latest Quarterly Letter, that, his previous remarks on resource depletion went almost completely unnoticed, as though his words “had disappeared down a black hole.” –Gregor Sources: Image: via comenter RDY, at The Oil Drum. Further Reading: Mr.
The Great Forgetting: You Probably Haven't Heard about It But It Completely Affects Your Life By Deep Ecology Hub / deep-ecology-hub.com/ Jan 23, 2014 This article summarizes the ideas of Daniel Quinn, first written about in The Story of B, which was a sequel to Ishmael. The longer, original essay can be read here, and comes highly recommended, especially if you find yourself disagreeing with the summary below. Most disagreements we've read about have turned out to be misunderstandings, so please check the original before coming to conclusions. The Great Forgetting refers to the wealth of knowledge that our culture lost when we adopted our new civilized lifestyle. The knowledge that allowed indigenous cultures to survive, the knowledge that we had once also been tribal and the understanding that we were but one mere culture of thousands. The Great Forgetting accounts for an enormous cultural collapse as once tribal people found themselves in a new and strange mass centralized society. It is only recently that the Great Forgetting has been exposed. The Truth Is Revealed
Gonnegtions, the Occupy Movement, and the Future of Decision Making Gonnegtions, the Occupy Movement, and the Future of Decision Making by Carl Pritchard In the literary classic The Great Gatsby, Meyer Wolfsheim hints at some shady business "gonnegtions" (an intentional mispronunciation of "connections"), suggesting that there's money to be made if the protagonist is a fellow "businessman" (read: criminal). Over the past few weeks, we've seen the Occupy Wall Street movement fan out across the US, railing against those kinds of shady "gonnegtions" among wheeler-dealers on Wall Street, in government, and in the currency, commodity, and financial markets. To continue, please log in: This document is available to Cutter Consortium Resource Center clients only.