Ibon wrote:l
Anthropolatry is the worship of humanity as a god.
Ibon wrote:Many of you were readers of John Michael Greer's blog The Archdruid Report that was discontinued a few months ago. He has started a new blog with a new theme that focuses on Anthropolatry, a term JMG coined. This happens to be a topic some of us occasionally touch on as well here on this site, in fact it recently came up on the thread The Stark Reality of Baked in Consequences... the-stark-realities-of-baked-in-catastrophes-t72476.html
Anthropolatry is the worship of humanity as a god. For those interested here is the link to the new blog.
http://www.ecosophia.net/
AdamB wrote:Ibon wrote:Many of you were readers of John Michael Greer's blog The Archdruid Report that was discontinued a few months ago. He has started a new blog with a new theme that focuses on Anthropolatry, a term JMG coined. This happens to be a topic some of us occasionally touch on as well here on this site, in fact it recently came up on the thread The Stark Reality of Baked in Consequences... the-stark-realities-of-baked-in-catastrophes-t72476.html
Anthropolatry is the worship of humanity as a god. For those interested here is the link to the new blog.
http://www.ecosophia.net/
Did he hide or get rid of his old blog, that folks can't examine his past claims in the light of today? A common tactic in peaker-ville...make darn sure folks can't see the past crazy...wondering if he is doing the same thing LATOC did in this regard?
pstarr wrote:Ibon wrote:"I am not one of his groupies, he does have occasional brilliant posts and the central theme of his new blog I think is a very relevant subject so I will follow it, glean some highlights and might post some highlights here. He was never a fast crash advocate and made many scathing essays about doomers by the way if your interested."
You surely miss Adam's point. He does not distinguish between fast crashers and slow crashers. We are all simply doomers.
pstarr wrote:
We who question the forward momentum of our bright-happy electrified wonderland must be demonized. It's bad for the oil business. We are hippies, enviro's, malcontents. We wish to destroy the beautiful dream with our doubts and ugliness. In an uglier time we would have been rounded up and dealt with.
pstarr wrote:Always ready to drive hits, huh Adam? Keep the posts coming.
pstarr wrote:Adam, you have got to be the biggest most committed peaker in the pond. Thanks for getting the message out there
Cheers
Plantagenet wrote:Ibon wrote:l
Anthropolatry is the worship of humanity as a god.
Will being gods make us any smarter or any more likely to make the right decisions when it comes to politics or efforts to protect the earth's environment?
It occurred to me a while back that one very simple issue is responsible for much of the crisis of our age. No question, that crisis has plenty of causes, some of them recent, some of them much less so; to get a clear understanding of the way that modern industrial civilization has backed itself into a corner from which the only exit leads straight down, it’s necessary to trace patterns of belief and action that go back to the early days of the industrial revolution, to the rise of mechanistic philosophy at the end of the Renaissance, or all the way back to the rejection of the Pagan gods and goddesses of Nature by newly minted prophetic religions obsessed by the glittering dream of a perfect otherworld on the far side of death. All these are relevant, and indeed important.
Last month, when I looked across the vast gray wasteland of the calendar page ahead and noted that there were five Wednesdays in November, I asked readers—in keeping with a newly minted but entertaining tradition here on Ecosophia—to suggest a theme for the fifth Wednesday post. This blog being the eccentric phenomenon that it is, it probably shouldn’t have surprised me that the result was a neck-and-neck contest between a post on nature spirits and a post on alternatives to capitalism and socialism, with a focus on democratic syndicalism. Nature spirits won by a nose, but there was enough interest in the other option that I decided to go ahead and write a post on that as well. Nature spirits and democratic syndicalism may not seem to have much in common, but I’ve discovered one unexpected similarity: it’s very difficult to
Last week’s post on political economy attracted plenty of disagreement. Now of course this came as no surprise, and it was also not exactly surprising that most of the disagreement took the shape of strident claims that I’d used the wrong definition of socialism. That’s actually worth addressing here, because it will help clear the ground for this week’s discussion. The definition I used, for those who weren’t here last week, is that socialism is the system of political economy in which the means of production are owned by the national government. Is that the only possible definition of socialism, or the only definition that’s ever been used? Of course not. The meanings of words are not handed down from on high by God or somebody; the meanings of words are always contested among competing points of view, and when a
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