I still have to read Butler. Two things from your article - Olamina means “minnow” in mesoamerica, and JG Ballard is still famous for predicting in a 1970 story that Ronald Reagan would become President. I look forward to more thoughts about Butler.
“Namely, in addition to organizing, movement building, and working with established religions and spiritualities we also need to embrace new ways of doing spirituality and religion that are responsive to collapse, that both give people agency and compel them to exercise it, that promote a more symbiotic relationship with the natural world, and that help us work against inequality and capitalist exploitation.” 💯💯💯
Looking forward to next Wednesday Joshua! Haven’t read Butler yet but now I must stop procrastinating and read it lol. Definitely worth it. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Butler.
I love the parable series, I connect to the philosophy of Earthseed a lot. When I first read the books, I copied down my favorite quotes from Earthseed: the book of the living. After reading the books, I started searching online to see if there were other people who connected with ideas in the book. You're article was a great read.
great intro, and an *amazing* book. I'm getting to the end of book 2 and have found myself yelling a few times about my fav bible verse, John 14:6 - Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." - i understand it to be literal, and do my best to always be honest, encourage honesty and honest living, something Laruen's antagonizers from the church seem to disregard.
I think it might be also worth mentioning or exploring the discussion she has early in book 1 with her friend about what's going on in the world and what that likely means for the future, why they should prepare, how her friend understood her message, and later, her father's advice - "Don't force people to look down into the abyss". some things that are coming are obvious if you're honest with yourself and not focused on a set timeframe (might be possible to predict the future as it tends to rhyme with the past, but it's impossible to time it)... most people can't bare to look at what they should expect to happen.
I still have to read Butler. Two things from your article - Olamina means “minnow” in mesoamerica, and JG Ballard is still famous for predicting in a 1970 story that Ronald Reagan would become President. I look forward to more thoughts about Butler.
“Namely, in addition to organizing, movement building, and working with established religions and spiritualities we also need to embrace new ways of doing spirituality and religion that are responsive to collapse, that both give people agency and compel them to exercise it, that promote a more symbiotic relationship with the natural world, and that help us work against inequality and capitalist exploitation.” 💯💯💯
Looking forward to next Wednesday Joshua! Haven’t read Butler yet but now I must stop procrastinating and read it lol. Definitely worth it. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Butler.
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you should look up Chelsea Frazier. she’s a black feminist eco-critic who does substantial research on on Butler’s work and the idea of world-making
I love the parable series, I connect to the philosophy of Earthseed a lot. When I first read the books, I copied down my favorite quotes from Earthseed: the book of the living. After reading the books, I started searching online to see if there were other people who connected with ideas in the book. You're article was a great read.
great intro, and an *amazing* book. I'm getting to the end of book 2 and have found myself yelling a few times about my fav bible verse, John 14:6 - Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." - i understand it to be literal, and do my best to always be honest, encourage honesty and honest living, something Laruen's antagonizers from the church seem to disregard.
I think it might be also worth mentioning or exploring the discussion she has early in book 1 with her friend about what's going on in the world and what that likely means for the future, why they should prepare, how her friend understood her message, and later, her father's advice - "Don't force people to look down into the abyss". some things that are coming are obvious if you're honest with yourself and not focused on a set timeframe (might be possible to predict the future as it tends to rhyme with the past, but it's impossible to time it)... most people can't bare to look at what they should expect to happen.