“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Sunday, February 21, 2016

Humankind 8: Misanthropocentrism

OOO actually sorts out Marx and makes Marxism work without the religious retweets that have been stymying it in practice!

Wow I just figured that out for real. And, this subscendence idea is incredibly empowering and helpful. And my seven year old son can understand it! I'm sure a four year old could, actually.

And, and: check this out. I came up with it today and I think now that it's the default state of any anthropocentrism whatsoever:

MISANTHROPOCENTRISM

Check that out for a nice new word.

3 comments:

James said...

Where would I find out more details about this discovery?

Julie said...

Having been fascinated by fractal geometry since 2009, I've been obsessed with the idea of subscendence (or however you spell it) since watching the video of your talk about it. I've also talked to my 13 year old about it. It's such an enriching idea.

Timothy Morton said...

Julie, yes! Fractals!