A Language Older Than Words

Posted on 16 December 2018 by Derrick Jensen

At once a beautifully poetic memoir and an exploration of the various ways we live in the world, A Language Older Than Words explains violence as a pathology that touches every aspect of our lives and indeed affects all aspects of life on Earth This chronicle of a young man s drive to transcend domestic abuse offers a challenging look at our worldwide sense of community and how we can make things better. Best Download [ A Language Older Than Words ] author [ Derrick Jensen ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This is one of the few books I have consciously decided not to finish in recent years I agree wholeheartedly with Jensen s basic premise that we are rendering the world uninhabitable and committing atrocities against its human and nonhuman residents, and that our ability to do this depends on our denial of reality and our disconnecting from the people around us I cannot, however, support the belief structure he builds up around this premise Jensen equates studying science with raping childr This is one of the few books I have consciously decided not to finish in recent years I agree wholeheartedly with Jensen s basic premise that we are rendering the world uninhabitable and committing atrocities against its human and nonhuman residents, and that our ability to do this depends on our denial of reality and our disconnecting from the people around us I cannot, however, support the belief structure he builds up around this premise Jensen equates studying science with raping children, and treats public schools as analogous with genocide He condemns all modern western social structures and sources of knowledge, and offers only eco terrorism and unverified personal gnosis as alternatives I was reading this book hoping for solutions I could apply in my own life, and I found only contempt for my not having found...it has been said, though i recall not by whom, that we do not find great books, that, in fact, they are the ones that manage to find us having been found, it took me visiting a now defunct bookstore in the east village of manhattan before i could see whether this book s promise the promise, ever present yet rarely fulfilled, of every unopened book were to be kept.from the first paragaraph i knew this was to be a book so stunning that i would i confuse the wish to have written it myself with t it has been said, though i recall not by whom, that we do not find great books, that, in fact, they are the ones that manage to find us having been found, it took me visiting a now defunct bookstore in the east village of manhattan before i could see whether this book s promise the promise, ever present yet rarely fulfilled, of every unopened book were to be kept.from the first paragaraph i knew this was to be a book so stunning that i would i confuse the wish to have written it myself with the ability to actually have been able to do sothere is a language older by far and deeper than words ...This book changed how I think I no longer see nonviolence as a passive state In our current circumstances, true nonviolence is the active defense of one s landbase.Reading Jensen for the first time was familiar Although I had never seen these words in print, I had heard them many times before If you have used meditation and or herbal fungal means to attain a state of consciousness where you have listened to the amplified sound of the earth, you have heard these words before too.The landbase This book changed how I think I no longer see nonviolence as a passive state In our current circumstances, true nonviolence is the active defense of one s landbase.Reading Jensen for the first time was familiar Although I had never seen these words in print, I had heard them many times before If you have used meditation and or herbal fungal means to attain a state of consciousness where you have listened to the amplified sound of the earth, you have heard these words before too.The landbas...The secret about Derrick Jensen is that all of his books are the same they use the same metaphors and repeat the same points over and over again Additionally, he has given the same public talk at every speaking event he s done for years yes, the Star Wars bit is funny the first time He is a good writer and speaker, but he uses this skill to cover up his lack of analysis and creativity Yes, logging is bad, killing salmon is bad, the Nazis were bad, child abuse is bad One would hope that so The secret about Derrick Jensen is that all of his books are the same they use the same metaphors and repeat the same points over and over again Additionally, he has given the same public talk at every speaking event he s done for years yes, the Star Wars bit is funny the first time He is a good writer and speaker, but he uses this skill to cover up his lack of analysis and creativity Yes, logging is bad, k...Great book All of it being good, a few passages stuck out at me The first was an explanation of where the dinners of he and a friend came from, going from origin to the plate The second was a good part of the chapter A Time of Sleeping, which helped me out by providing something to go to to point out why I want nothing to do with the wage economy.The whole book,than anything else, also echoes something I ve tried to keep in mind for a long time to overcome the present predicament wil Great book All of it being good, a few passages stuck out at me The first was an explanation of w...This is a very disturbing book Jensen is a radical environmentalist and anarcho primitivst to use labels on someone who decries label usage and for good reason.Jensen s view is that we are going to hell in a handbasket A handbasket willed with chemicals and shit, and radiation, and human destructiveness.he pulls no punches, and there is very little I disagree with him about His ability to write clearly and show the interconnectedness of so many different elements in society and the consequ This is a very disturbing book Jensen is a radical environmentalist and anarcho primitivst to use labels on someone who decries label usage and for good reason.Jensen s view is that we are going to hell in a handbasket A handbasket willed with chemicals and shit, and radiation, and human destructiveness.he pulls no punches, and there is very little I disagree with him about His ability to write clearly and show the interconnectedness of so many different elements in society and the consequences of human ignorance, arrogance and meanness is a pleasure to appreciate while at the same time profoundly painful to read the environment capitalism, patriarchy have so distorted human fiunctioning that only the unraveling of civilization gives any chance of the world not being horribly transformed In...What to say If you ve read Daniel Quinn s Ishmael, or just been paying attention to what s been going on in the world for well, your whole life, you know things are pretty screwed and human activities are pretty well the thing screwing them up mass extinction, climate change, pollution of everything, violence between nations and within families and the list goes on and goes deeper This 400 or so page book could have been filled with a bullit pointed list of all the atrocities of hum What to say If you ve read Daniel Quinn s Ishmael, or just been paying attention to what s been going on in the world for well, your whole life, you know things are pretty screwed and human activities are pretty well the thing screwing them up mass extinction, climate change, pollution of everything, violence between nations and within families and the list goes on and goes deeper This 400 or so page book could have been filled with a bullit pointed list of all the atrocities of human un kind with a sequel ready to hit the presses the next day It is chock full of distressi...Rarely do I read a book that not only hits so many political punches right in the gut, but also brings it all back home on a personal and spiritual level without coming off as cheesy This is such a book Skimming through the criticism of this book, it is understandable that many are turned off by Jensen s sweeping critiques of civilization, and are quick to point out the hypocrisy of him living in a big house, owning his own land, and driving a truck All fair and good, even though he admits th Rarely do I read a book that not only hits so many political punches right in the gut, but also brings it all back home on a personal and spiritual level without coming off as cheesy This is such a book Skimming through the criticism of this book, it is understandable that many are turned off by Jensen s sweeping critiques of civilization, and are quick to point out the hypocrisy of him living in a big house, owning his own land, and driving a truck All fair and good, even though he admits that he is not perfect and he is doomed to being inseparable from the culture he was born and raised in, and we all struggle to live by our morals and ideals, however they may be set What ...An unspeakably beautiful, painful book About what It s about interspecies communication, but it s also about high jumping, and beekeeping, forests and faith, lively writing and dead salmon, sexual abuse and global warming it s about Maori tradition and stimulating plant cells it s about disease and dis ease, about the brain and our consciousness it s about power and revolution and how revolutions are not it s about valuing production over relationships it s about community it s about our An unspeakably beautiful, painful book About what It s about interspecies communication, but it s also about high jumping, and beekeeping, forests and faith, lively writing and dead salmon, sexual abuse and global war...Reading a book like this, I can always feel a little bit smug in my aboriginal irish womynhood nessah white boy, your kind have ruined the planet, tch tch That s a joke, i don t feel smug This book is blowing my mind It s desperately sad as Jensen drags you around showing you the nasty ness that our comfortable western lifestyles are built upon poisoning the earth, enslavement of people, abuse of animals but optimistic as he encourages the reader to make a change.There s philosophy, memo Reading a book like this, I can always feel a little bit smug in my aboriginal irish womynhood nessah white boy, your kind have ruined the planet, tch tch That s a joke, i don t feel smug This book is blowing my mind It s desperately sad as Jensen drags you around showing you the nasty ness that our comfortable western lifestyles are built upon poisoning the earth, enslavement of people, ...

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16 December 2018

Derrick Jensen