awake & reading : Orion | by Shaun O.
I was somewhat surprised to read Derrick Jensen's quite confrontational piece in the latest Orion Magazine: Resistance Resisters.
The basic premise concerns current environmentalist issues, movements against corporate (and governmental?) greed and trampling of forms of life, mostly those that cannot fight for themselves; and Jensen is asking me if riding my bike to work is doing all that much, or if I'm really fighting the good fight at all...
Nicely played.
Just as I've grown more fond of peaceful rhetoric to guide my values - especially in any religious setting - Jensen's violent environmental rhetoric might be appropriate in this context. And, I've recently witnessed Bill McKibben and Wendell Berry, among others, take strong "stand-up" action against mountain top removal mining at protests and sit-ins - see ilovemountains.
So I'm pondering my passive resistance stance. There's more going on than bicycles and poetry.
I'll leave it to you to read his short piece linked above and let's discuss.
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