Thank you, Rob. I think you’re correct to notice that we are becoming the technology that is undermining our sanity. I’ve always been a big fan of sanity. Sanity in the sense of how Gary Snyder defines it in “The Practice of the Wild” (can’t find the quote at this moment!)--but you can imagine. I can’t stand this obsession with “emissions”--no one’s saying they’re harmless, but there’s too much blindness and corruption when it comes to simply changing the kinds of cars we drive--as if electric vehicles have no environmental/social impact, and as if electric vehicles aren’t tied into the same corporate insanity that gas ones are. I noticed the other day, it was really clear and bright out, how, when we look out the window we see the entire mountainside across from us covered in still-standing orangey-colored burned trees. Maybe the orange colour comes from fire retardant they were dumping to try to stop the fire and save people’s houses. (150 were lost last August.) We have those a block away from us, too. We were so fortunate, I still can hardly believe it. (thanks to firefighters putting up sprinklers.) In short, just to say, I agree with the sanity of your views, including those about the genocide in Gaza.
“It’s almost as if we’re mirroring the climates we’re destroying.”
Hotter, drier, angrier? Barren? Illusioned or disillusioned. I’m thinking of Baudrillard when he writes about the Desert of the Real: we create a barrenness by not appreciating the life we still have. Just as we will change ourselves into robots long before the robots take over, we will give up on finding life on the Earth long before Earth runs out of life.
Thank you, Rob. I think you’re correct to notice that we are becoming the technology that is undermining our sanity. I’ve always been a big fan of sanity. Sanity in the sense of how Gary Snyder defines it in “The Practice of the Wild” (can’t find the quote at this moment!)--but you can imagine. I can’t stand this obsession with “emissions”--no one’s saying they’re harmless, but there’s too much blindness and corruption when it comes to simply changing the kinds of cars we drive--as if electric vehicles have no environmental/social impact, and as if electric vehicles aren’t tied into the same corporate insanity that gas ones are. I noticed the other day, it was really clear and bright out, how, when we look out the window we see the entire mountainside across from us covered in still-standing orangey-colored burned trees. Maybe the orange colour comes from fire retardant they were dumping to try to stop the fire and save people’s houses. (150 were lost last August.) We have those a block away from us, too. We were so fortunate, I still can hardly believe it. (thanks to firefighters putting up sprinklers.) In short, just to say, I agree with the sanity of your views, including those about the genocide in Gaza.
“It’s almost as if we’re mirroring the climates we’re destroying.”
Hotter, drier, angrier? Barren? Illusioned or disillusioned. I’m thinking of Baudrillard when he writes about the Desert of the Real: we create a barrenness by not appreciating the life we still have. Just as we will change ourselves into robots long before the robots take over, we will give up on finding life on the Earth long before Earth runs out of life.
(Minor typo, Pesthouse => Pershouse. Please delete this comment)
Looking forward to reading what is in the hopper!