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size=2 face=Arial>Wayne, This sounds rather amazing. Please tell us
more. Lynda Cock, Greensboro, NC</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> dialogue-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net
[mailto:dialogue-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Wayne
Ellsworth<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, February 17, 2013 4:23 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
Colleague Dialogue; David Zahrt<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Dialogue] A P O C A L Y
P S E !!<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>David,
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<DIV>This is a simple summary of where we are and are headed. Even President's
of major companies have said it is time to redefine capitalism. Thanks for this
article. It will help me in setting up 16 profound radiant peace creating
centers. Are you with me?</DIV>
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<DIV>Wayne</DIV>
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<DIV>On Feb 17, 2013, at 12:39 PM, David Zahrt <4deezee@<A
href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</A>> wrote:</DIV><BR
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in Iowa. This is what I got last week.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><I><B>I THINK YOU CAN SEE I'M FORWARDING THIS TO
YOU. IT SEEMS TO BE WELL PUT AND ON TARGET</B></I></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><I><B>David</B></I></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">From: Mark Edward<I>s</I></DIV>Sent: 10 Feb 2013
18:30:44 GMT<BR>To: <A style="COLOR: rgb(17,85,204)"
href="mailto:IOWA-NATIVE-PLANTS@LIST.UIOWA.EDU"
target=_blank>IOWA-NATIVE-PLANTS@LIST.UIOWA.EDU</A><BR>Subject:
[IOWA-NATIVE-PLANTS] Food for Thought<BR><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 21px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><A style="COLOR: rgb(17,85,204)"
title="Click to search for messages with same subject"
href="http://mail.yahoo.com/" target=_blank>Rationally Speaking, We Are All
Apocalyptic Now</A></SPAN></DIV></SPAN></FONT>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt">From <SPAN><A style="COLOR: rgb(17,85,204)"
title=robertjensenupdates@thirdcoastactivist.org
href="http://us-mg6.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?.rand=eis30cjomtfqb"
target=_blank>Robert Jensen Updates</A></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN><U><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"><A style="COLOR: rgb(17,85,204)"
href="http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=14322&Itemid=228"
target=_blank>http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=14322&Itemid=228</A></SPAN></U></SPAN><BR><BR>Rationally
Speaking, We Are All Apocalyptic Now <BR><BR>Friday, 08 February 2013 By
Robert Jensen, Truthout | Op-Ed <BR>----------<BR>If we are rational and
consider objective scientific evidence of environmental collapse including
groundwater depletion, topsoil loss, chemical contamination, ocean dead zones,
species extinction, bio-diversity reduction and climate disruption, we need to
be apocalypticists, argues Robert Jensen, the author of We Are All Apocalyptic
Now: On the Responsibilities of Teaching, Preaching, Reporting, Writing, and
Speaking Out.<BR>----------<BR>We are all apocalyptic now, or at least we should
be, <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow">if we are
rational</SPAN>.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Because
"apocalyptic" is typically associated with religious fanaticism and death cults
-- things that rational people tend not to take literally or seriously -- this
claim requires some explanation.<BR><BR>First, a definition: The term is most
commonly used in reference to the Book of Revelation, also known as The
Apocalypse of John, the final book of the Christian New Testament. The two terms
are synonymous in their original meaning - "revelation" from Latin and
"apocalypse" from Greek both mean a lifting of the veil, a disclosure of
something that had been hidden.<BR><BR>Second, the formulation "we are all (fill
in the blank) now" has long been a way to assert that certain ideas have become
the norm: "We are all Keynesians now," said Milton Friedman in 1965, for
instance, or to express solidarity: "We are all New Yorkers now," said many
non-New Yorkers after 9/11.<BR><BR>Rather than claiming divine inspiration, we
can come to greater clarity about the desperate state of the ecosphere and its
human inhabitants through evidence and reason. It is time for a calm, measured
apocalypticism that recognizes that the ecosphere sets norms, which we have
ignored for too long, and that we need to develop a new sense of solidarity
among humans and with the larger living world.<BR>So, speaking apocalyptically
need not leave us stuck in a corner with the folks predicting lakes of fire,
rivers of blood or bodies lifted up to the heavens. Instead, it can focus our
attention on ecological realities and on the unjust and unsustainable human
systems that have brought us to this point.<BR><BR>This "revelation" is simple:
We've built a world based on the assumption that we will have endless energy to
subsidize endless economic expansion, which was supposed to magically produce
justice. That world is over, both in reality and in dreams. Either we begin to
build a different world, or there will be no world capable of sustaining a
large-scale human presence.<BR><BR>If that's not clear: When we take seriously
what physics, chemistry and biology tell us about the health of the living world
on which we depend, we all should be thinking apocalyptically. Look at any
crucial measure of the ecosphere -- groundwater depletion, topsoil loss,
chemical contamination, increased toxicity in our own bodies, the number and
size of "dead zones" in the oceans, accelerating extinction of species and
reduction of biodiversity, and the ultimate game-changer of climate disruption
-- and ask a simple question: Where we are heading? Scientists these days are
talking about tipping points and planetary boundaries, about how human activity
is pushing the planet beyond its limits.<BR><BR>If we look honestly at the state
of the world, it is difficult not to conclude that we are in end times of sorts
-- not the end of the physical world, but the end of the First-World way of
living and the end of the systems on which that life is based.<BR><BR>I know
that invoking the terms "apocalypse" and "end times" triggers many people's
experiences with arrogant religious people who preach about deliverance
fantasies. My message is not about a rapture that can be predicted, but about
ruptures in the ecological and social fabrics that are underway and
accelerating.<BR><BR>No matter how carefully I craft these statements -- no
matter how often I deny a claim to special gifts of prognostication, no matter
now clearly I reject supernatural explanations or solutions -- many people
refuse to take this analysis seriously. Some people joke about "Mr. Doom and
Gloom." Others suggest that such talk is no different than conspiracy theorists'
ramblings about how international bankers, secret cells of communists, or
crypto-fascists are using the United Nations to create a one-world
government.<BR><BR>Even the most measured and careful talk of the coming
dramatic change in the place of humans on Earth leads to accusations that one is
unnecessarily alarmist, probably paranoid and certainly irrelevant in serious
discussions about social and ecological issues. In the United States, people
expect talk of the future to be upbeat, based on those assumptions of endless
expansion and perpetual progress, or at least maintenance of our "way of life."
Even those who realize the danger of such fanciful thinking are hesitant to
speak too bluntly, out of fear of seeming crazy.<BR><BR>A calm apocalypticism is
not crazy, but rather can help us confront honestly the crises of our time and
strategize constructively about possible responses. We can struggle to
understand -- to the best of our ability, without succumbing to magical thinking
-- the state of the ecosphere and the impediments to sensible action in our
societies.<BR><BR>This struggle to understand led me to write a short polemic,
We Are All Apocalyptic Now: On the Responsibilities of Teaching, Preaching,
Reporting, Writing, and Speaking Out (in print at<A
style="COLOR: rgb(17,85,204)"
href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/148195847X/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER"
target=_blank>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/148195847X/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER</A> and
on Kindle at<A style="COLOR: rgb(17,85,204)"
href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BAWQO84"
target=_blank>http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BAWQO84</A>). The book's message is
simple: The big systems that structure our world, especially capitalism and the
extractive economy, are incompatible with social justice and ecological
sustainability.<U></U><U></U></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><U></U><U></U></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Those who have
opportunities to write and speak out have a responsibility to articulate the
radical analysis necessary to understand the problems and begin to identify
solutions.<BR><BR>To think apocalyptically is not to give up on ourselves, but
only to give up on the arrogant stories -- religious and secular -- that we
modern humans have been telling about ourselves. Our hope for a decent future --
indeed, any hope for even the idea of a future -- depends on our ability to tell
stories not of how humans have ruled the world, but how we can live in the
world.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">We are all
apocalyptic now, whether we like it or not.<BR>---------------<BR>Robert Jensen
is a professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin
and board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center in Austin. We Are
All Apocalyptic Now: On the Responsibilities of Teaching, Preaching, Reporting,
Writing, and Speaking Out is online in print at<A style="COLOR: rgb(17,85,204)"
href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/148195847X/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER"
target=_blank>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/148195847X/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER</A> and
on Kindle at<A style="COLOR: rgb(17,85,204)"
href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BAWQO84"
target=_blank>http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BAWQO84</A>.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Jensen is also
the author of Arguing for Our Lives: A User’s Guide to Constructive Dialogue
(City Lights, coming in April 2013); All My Bones Shake: Seeking a Progressive
Path to the Prophetic Voice, (Soft Skull Press, 2009); Getting Off: Pornography
and the End of Masculinity (South End Press, 2007); The Heart of Whiteness:
Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege (City Lights, 2005); Citizens of
the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity (City Lights, 2004); and Writing
Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream (Peter Lang,
2002). Jensen is also co-producer of the documentary film “Abe Osheroff: One
Foot in the Grave, the Other Still Dancing” (Media Education Foundation, 2009),
which chronicles the life and philosophy of the longtime radical
activist.<U></U><U></U></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><U></U><U></U></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">An extended
interview Jensen conducted with Osheroff is online at<A
style="COLOR: rgb(17,85,204)"
href="http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/freelance/abeosheroffinterview.htm"
target=_blank>http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/freelance/abeosheroffinterview.htm</A>. <BR>Jensen
can be reached at <A style="COLOR: rgb(17,85,204)"
href="mailto:rjensen@austin.utexas.edu"
target=_blank>rjensen@austin.utexas.edu</A> and his articles can be found
online at<A style="COLOR: rgb(17,85,204)"
href="http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/index.html"
target=_blank>http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/index.html</A>.<U></U><U></U></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">To join an email
list to receive articles by Jensen, go to<A style="COLOR: rgb(17,85,204)"
href="http://www.thirdcoastactivist.org/jensenupdates-info.html"
target=_blank>http://www.thirdcoastactivist.org/jensenupdates-info.html</A>.
Twitter: @jensenrobertw.</SPAN>-- <BR></P>
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