Derrick Jensen - Don´t fear the bears

This is a sample from a lecture which was held by Derrick Jensen. Why should we don´t fear bears, and why should we fear cars...

What if you live in the most destructive culture ever to exist? What if that culture refuses to change? What do you do about it?

Derrick Jensen: Endgame Part One

www.endgamethebook.org

www.derrickjensen.org

Download the whole lecture from www.archive.org:
http://www.archive.org/details/PhilosopherSeed-DerrickJensenEndgamePartOne803

http://www.archive.org/details/PhilosopherSeed-DerrickJensenEndgamePartTwo255

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Comedy

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• derrick
• jensen
• endgame
• anticivilization
• civilization
• bears
• car
• parking
• lot
• wafpress
• forest
• feds
• zerzan
• anarchy

[heyyouube11111]

Bears stay away from us because they are afraid of us. They know that we will kill them for no reason.

[ItsFilthy]

I love this guy. Thanks for posting this...it made my night! Respect!

[seigneurvoland666]

@darlingelf it's a bias on behalf of our species, part of our ignorance, surprised?

[NDVR08]

Yeah, his logic is faulty re: the bears vs. auto accidents comparison. Jensen is a perfect example of a brilliant, authentic person. He says very astute and meaningful things, but occasionally says...well...other things. Don't count on a guy with a Creative Writing degree for constant adherence to statistical principles. Listen to the "meat" of his meaning.

[KephenSting]

That is a completely false equivalence. He is like the Peter Sellers Character from "Being There."

faux faux faux faux...

[dinokralt4]

wikipedia: Jensen says that he sees civilization to be inherently unsustainable and based on violence. He argues that the modern industrial economy is fundamentally at odds with healthy relationships, the natural environment, and indigenous peoples. .... Accordingly, he exhorts readers and audiences to help bring an end to industrial civilization. this man is much more intelligent and creative then myself, but to truly rally behind these ideas appears to be pure ideology. How can it not?

[TheodorBjork]

I love Jensen, but here he is wrong! Of course there are more automobile accidents than bear attacks! Most people dont live in the woods, most people live near highways. Reminds me of a Jimmy Carr joke: "There is a 90% more chance of you getting robbed in your home town than in New York City...it's cause you dont live in New York city!"

[AbeIsLincoln]

Dumb comparison. Millions of people are in or around cars every single day, for long periods of time. How many people are around bears per day? and for how long?

Switch that number of people being around cars to being around bears and see how many bears attack.

Just google Timothy Treadwell, he thought bears were harmless and more safe than cars too.............

[Recessive1]

yay! level headed comments ftw.

[Rev01t]

It's typically 2 or 3 (reported) fatal bear attacks per year.

[Number3Pencils]

And finally, as for starvation, it's actually civilization affected harder, because we rely on monocrops that the weather can easily interfere with. Hunter-gatherers just eat whatever is around, and even in the Kalahari, there's always something around. Jared Diamond quoted a Bushman saying, "Why should we [plant crops like civilized societies] when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?" These Bushmen societies work about five hours a day and the rest is leisure.