cyborg
02-28-2008, 02:23 PM
Druid perspectives on nature, culture, and the future of industrial society
The Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA), John Michael Greer has been active in the alternative spirituality movement for more than 25 years, and is the author of a dozen books, including "The Druidry Handbook" (Weiser, 2006). He lives in Ashland, Oregon.
http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/
Environmental conservation meets social liberation in a future post-petroleum, ecotechnic civilization.
I detest our primitive Specieism (http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Speciesism),
Philosophers Tom Regan and Peter Singer have both argued against the human tendency to exhibit speciesism. Regan argues that all animals have inherent rights and that we cannot assign them a lesser value because of a perceived lack of rationality, while assigning a higher value to infants and the mentally impaired solely on the grounds of being members of a certain species. and favor redesigning modern society so that it need not destroy terrestrial biodiversity of any kind including human ethnicity (thus having a substantive claim to the terms advanced, progress and intelligence).
Because we have no reverence for living things, we routinely bring species into extinction, terminate our own cultures and encourage directionless genetic randomness among the human subspecies, all for transient commercial gain. Our species is fetus, not matured.
The Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA), John Michael Greer has been active in the alternative spirituality movement for more than 25 years, and is the author of a dozen books, including "The Druidry Handbook" (Weiser, 2006). He lives in Ashland, Oregon.
http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/
Environmental conservation meets social liberation in a future post-petroleum, ecotechnic civilization.
I detest our primitive Specieism (http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Speciesism),
Philosophers Tom Regan and Peter Singer have both argued against the human tendency to exhibit speciesism. Regan argues that all animals have inherent rights and that we cannot assign them a lesser value because of a perceived lack of rationality, while assigning a higher value to infants and the mentally impaired solely on the grounds of being members of a certain species. and favor redesigning modern society so that it need not destroy terrestrial biodiversity of any kind including human ethnicity (thus having a substantive claim to the terms advanced, progress and intelligence).
Because we have no reverence for living things, we routinely bring species into extinction, terminate our own cultures and encourage directionless genetic randomness among the human subspecies, all for transient commercial gain. Our species is fetus, not matured.