Quotes From "Endgame Vol 1: The Problem Of Civilization" By Derrick Jensen

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We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls. Derrick Jensen
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A real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves Derrick Jensen
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A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper. Derrick Jensen
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...a woman smart and persistent enough that even a PhD in psychology hasn't clouded her insight into how people think and act. Derrick Jensen
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To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can talk all we want about sustainability, but there's a sense in which it doesn't matter that these people's dreams are based on, embedded in, intertwined with, and formed by an inherently destructive economic and social system. Their dreams are still their dreams. What right do I -- or does anyone else -- have to destroy them. At the same time, what right do they have to destroy the world? . Derrick Jensen
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Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations. At last most of us must understand that the opposite is true: that the primary purpose of government is to protect those who run the economy from the outrage of injured citizens. Derrick Jensen
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One of the problems with all of this is that not all narratives are equal. Imagine, to take a silly example, that someone told you story after story extolling the virtues of eating dog shit. You've been told these stories since you were a child. You believe them. You eat dog shit hotdogs, dog shit ice cream, General Tso's dog shit. Sooner or later, if you are exposed to some other foods, you might figure out that dog shit really doesn't taste good. Or if you cling too tightly to these stories (or if your enculturation is so strong that dog shit actually does taste good to you), the diet might make you sick or kill you. To make this example a little less silly, substitute the word pesticides for dog shit. Or, for that matter, substitute Big Mac, Whopper, or Coca Cola. Derrick Jensen
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The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment. Derrick Jensen