Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of CivilizationThe 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. |
Contents
APOCALYPSE | 1 |
FIVE STORIES | 5 |
CIVILIZATION | 15 |
CLEAN WATER | 25 |
CATASTROPHE | 33 |
VIOLENCE | 49 |
IRREDEEMABLE | 67 |
COUNTERVIOLENCE | 77 |
LOVE DOES NOT IMPLY PACIFISM | 293 |
ITS TIME TO GET OUT | 303 |
COURAGE | 315 |
HOPE | 327 |
THE CIVILIZED WILL SMILE AS THEY TEAR YOU LIMB FROM LIMB | 339 |
THEIR INSANITY WAS PERMANENT | 351 |
ROMANTIC NIHILISM | 361 |
NECK DEEP IN DENIAL | 367 |
LISTENING TO THE LAND | 87 |
CARRYING CAPACITY | 101 |
THE NEEDS OF THE NATURAL WORLD | 121 |
PREDATOR AND PREY | 131 |
CHOICES | 141 |
ABUSE | 155 |
A CULTURE OF OCCUPATION | 183 |
WHY CIVILIZATION IS KILLING THE WORLD PART I | 207 |
WHY CIVILIZATION IS KILLING THE WORLD PART II | 229 |
BRINGING DOWN CIVILIZATION PART I | 249 |
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE | 269 |
HATRED | 281 |
MAKING IT HAPPEN | 375 |
FULCRUMS | 387 |
VIOLENCE | 397 |
SPENDING OUR WAY TO SUSTAINABILITY | 405 |
EMPATHY AND ITS OTHER | 415 |
SHOULD WE FIGHT BACK? | 425 |
STAR WARS | 445 |
Acknowledgments | 453 |
Notes | 455 |
Bibliography | 473 |
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