>Jim again: It is time for me to now "proliferate a provocation." :-)
>(Although I am under no illusions whatsoever about affecting the moral
>development of that human personality formerly known as "mr. soft fluffy
>cloud," AKA "shabs du wah," AKA mister "softly chuckling," et al. <g>)
So you like Orb's song "Soft Fluffy Cloud"?
>
>In response to John F., Maria-Stella, Ted Mosquin perhaps (?), and to any
>others who may feel that *any* and all criticisms of environmentalists
>and/or of environmentalism constitutes a single, monolithic form of
>disloyal "anti-environmentalism": I would like to argue instead that this
>constitutes a pragmatic mode of cultural criticism (with the culture in
>this case being "environmentalism," i.e. as a social movement or even as a
>fixed body of ideas, I suppose).
It is pretty difficult to lump all environmentalist together into conveient
little label and put in on a sticky note so you cannot easily forget.
However you would the patience of Job, the memory of an elephant, and the
tentacles of the octopus. What sociologist is capable of that. Perhaps
Erving Goffman could be hired to stand watch these people behave in public
places so as to see when the scratch themselves, blink, etc.
Since when is there one dominant culture that can be adequately described as
"environmentalism" ---we are retreating back to that sarcastic Budiansky. AS
if Anne Dilliard is even remotely classfiable....she (written thoughts)
simply transcends any genric pigeion holing in my mind. She is great....I
love her mysticism...and eroticism.
john foster
>In other words, I'd like to suggest that
>the internal environmental critique of environmentalism is *better*
>understood in such pragmatic and Emersonian philosophical terms (as West
>describes them) than in the more simplistic "anti-environmental" and
>"propaganda" terms that we tend to see casually tossed about so often--both
>here on this list, but also in the "real world" as well. And that latter
>place, John, would include New Zealand. :-)
American pragmatism reminds me of Henry Millers "Air conditioned Nightmare"
and Millers' "Death of the Salesman" which should be required reading for
business students.
Still softly blushing from echinodontium tinctorum (prickly coloured teeth
marks)
Untantillowed
jophn foster
"When an idea is new, it is seen as crazy. This is followed by a period in
which it is viewed as dangerous. After this, there is a period of
uncertainty. In the end, you can't find anyone who disagreed with it in the
first place".
Stephen J. Gould
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