I once had a lot of traction back in the Bush II era. Not sure I want it anymore. It comes with a price, and baggage, and responsibility. Not to mention that it's tempting to believe people saying I'm all that--the biggest danger. I've changed my mind so many times in the last twenty years, I've lost count. Rather be the yeast than the loaf. But thanks! You're a mensch.
Don't write *for* anyone now, except readers (and my grandkids if they should want to some day). Way back when, yeah, but my cultural capital diminished along with my desire to deal with all the hassle and negotiation. I am definitely about nonviolence--a Catholic pacifist all the way down.
I'd have some very powerful disagreements with FSD now, at least on my past (and definitely violent) conclusions. The soldier boy was still strong in me. It would be pretty hard to map me onto that anachronistic left-right continuum nowadays, partly because I've come to reject the metaphysics shared across it. And I've lost my faith in the capacity of political action of any kind to produce lasting benefits. My politics is this: "But now we have been released from the law, having died wherein we were imprisoned, so that we serve in a newness of spirit."
I have a little camp on the East Branch of the Two Hearted River. With a spring. I don't get up there as often as I should.
It's not a question--re birds and plants--of whether one "should,' but of if one can, and then by what means. When I comes to human beings, I can't get behind "removal." They are children of God. All of them.
Nice connection between “invasive species” and culture as self-contained and assigned.
Excellent essay.
I once had a lot of traction back in the Bush II era. Not sure I want it anymore. It comes with a price, and baggage, and responsibility. Not to mention that it's tempting to believe people saying I'm all that--the biggest danger. I've changed my mind so many times in the last twenty years, I've lost count. Rather be the yeast than the loaf. But thanks! You're a mensch.
Don't write *for* anyone now, except readers (and my grandkids if they should want to some day). Way back when, yeah, but my cultural capital diminished along with my desire to deal with all the hassle and negotiation. I am definitely about nonviolence--a Catholic pacifist all the way down.
I'd have some very powerful disagreements with FSD now, at least on my past (and definitely violent) conclusions. The soldier boy was still strong in me. It would be pretty hard to map me onto that anachronistic left-right continuum nowadays, partly because I've come to reject the metaphysics shared across it. And I've lost my faith in the capacity of political action of any kind to produce lasting benefits. My politics is this: "But now we have been released from the law, having died wherein we were imprisoned, so that we serve in a newness of spirit."
I have a little camp on the East Branch of the Two Hearted River. With a spring. I don't get up there as often as I should.
It's not a question--re birds and plants--of whether one "should,' but of if one can, and then by what means. When I comes to human beings, I can't get behind "removal." They are children of God. All of them.