"And the worms ate into his brain"
ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE
beauty solidarity symbiosis
Friday, November 15, 2024
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
My Lecture at Charles University, Prague (November 1)
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Sunday, November 10, 2024
Thursday, November 7, 2024
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Monday, November 4, 2024
MLK Talks Forgiveness
I forgave my father two years ago. It was a sensation, forgiveness. A totally strange, totally wonderful, totally recognizable sensation, despite my never having felt it before. It's not just a formal act. It has a feel to it.
I found this in my mail today.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. considers the power of love that Jesus revealed at his death:
Few words in the New Testament more clearly and solemnly express the magnanimity of Jesus’ spirit than that sublime utterance from the cross, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do” [Luke 23:34]. This is love at its best.…
The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of revenge. [Humanity] has never risen above the injunction of the lex talionis: “Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.” In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, [people] continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.
Jesus eloquently affirmed from the cross a higher law. He knew that the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek to overcome evil with evil. He overcame evil with good. Although crucified by hate, he responded with [forceful] love.
What a magnificent lesson! Generations will rise and fall; [people] will continue to worship the god of revenge and bow before the altar of retaliation; but ever and again this noble lesson of Calvary will be a nagging reminder that only goodness can drive out evil and only love can conquer hate.
Sunday, November 3, 2024
My Lecture at UNT (this Saturday)
It was such an honor and the Q&A explored such good things.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
Two Fascist Rallies at the Same Place (Madison Square Garden) at Different Times
Rallies at Madison Square Garden by Timothy Snyder
Quotations from October 27th, 2024, and February 20th, 1939
Read on SubstackWednesday, October 23, 2024
A Few Weeks from Now
Hey, tech bros:
Make sure to carry plenty of cash. That is, if the cash machine will still let you get any out.
You go to the gas station, but you can't fill up because the automated system in the station tells the manager you're not MAGA enough. So you have to bribe him, let's say double the cost of the gas you need.
Can't Wait to See You in Chicago
If you're anywhere near, please come to the Seminary Co-Op, the best bookstore in the whole of the USA, for an hour of talk between me and Liam Heneghan, biologist and novelist and philosopher.
It's at 6pm this Friday (October 25).
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Friday, October 18, 2024
"Having Mercy" (my Kent State Lecture)
This was a prestigious Veroni Lecture, to which I was incredibly honored to have been invited to give.
At Kent State
Frank Ryan, one of the professors in the wonderful philosophy department at Kent State, showed me and Treena on a pilgrimage to the site of the Kent State Massacre. He was just starting out himself at the University of Colorado at Boulder at the time. Frank's telling of the story was plangent and detailed and loving and suffused with passion and anger and grief.
I'll try to say more about it here when I can. I am still absorbing the first shock of it. One of the biggest reasons to visit Kent State was to make this pilgrimage.
But for now I'll say that bringing this event to consciousness and making it a part of the university's life, creating the visitor center with its incredible exhibit and video (and audio) footage, the research library devoted to studying it, is nothing but good. Relating to grief is nothing but good. It doesn't feel that way, sometimes, but it's true.
For a very long time Kent State tried to ignore what had happened. But this only resulted in further pain.