In popular culture, nihilism is taken to mean the felt sense that things are futile and bound ineluctably toward dissolution. This is a reasonable description of the human experience of nihilism, but it does not deliver its meaning. The meaning of nihilism derives from its metaphysics. Continue reading The metaphysics of human supremacy
Is human nature destructive? Or have human beings indoctrinated themselves into a belief system that is destructive? The quandary is worth pursuing even if it yields no conclusive answer. Continue reading Regarding misanthropy
The Earth apex predators will revive will be vibrant, of habitable weather, a planet that will “pay us back” with knowledge, medicine, health, spiritual experience, aesthetic elation, and wisdom—the wisdom of understanding our place in nature’s order. Continue reading WITNESS: Tiger magic
Human supremacy sees with the eyes of nihilism, for nihilism (the profanation of existence) is the metaphysics of human supremacy. Continue reading The secret garden
Here, I make a case for something that I call compassionate entomology, which is a way of studying insects and other arthropods that upholds the intrinsic value and welfare interests of the individual focal organisms. Continue reading Making a case for compassionate entomology
Like everywhere on this planet, on the Sargasso life is attracted to life, electrified by curiosity, loving to feed life’s mirror neurons, ever in search of eating, mating, communicating, puttering around, resting, and playing. Continue reading WITNESS: Tales from the Sargasso Sea
The masterminds of deep-sea mining only deserve contempt. Indeed, I’m going to bypass decorum and say to the corporate-cum-political goons gearing up for more nature desecration: Your window dressing is repugnant and your actions worse. Continue reading Cloak and desecrate: The specter of deep-sea mining
Let’s not indulge in euphemism. Freya was a living mammal like us, who wanted to live. What you ordered was not euthanasia but a killing, or a murder. Continue reading The death of Freya
It is said we are made of stardust. Perhaps that’s where accomplished meditators return. The rest of us may more easily return to what we’re made of by contemplating the first lifeform that emerged: the Archetype, which literally means “the first form.” Continue reading Don’t lose heart
On Friday 22nd April, an unusual ceremony took place in Winnipeg, Canada. Represented by its governor, the Hudson’s Bay Company gave its massive retail store in the heart of downtown Winnipeg, dating from 1881, to the Manitoba First Nations. Continue reading What change? Whose reconciliation?
The real way forward, away from suffering and toward hope, lies in denouncing the root cause of our predicament, the human-supremacy story, the destructive platitude of human specialness. Continue reading Broken mirror
Earth keepers call out to one and all to opt out of the sociocultural identity game, to choose freedom from anthropocentric herd costumes that furnish simulacra of reality for a sleepwalking, and now moribund, existence. Continue reading Earthling (we/us)
At first glance, it may strike us as odd that human food is made from the suffering and torture of animals. But it’s the fact that it is not odd that should command our attention. Continue reading Shutter the factory farms
Earth is a place of exquisite vitality pervaded by the mystery of awareness. It is being catastrophically impoverished. Artificial intelligence will not bring back what is vanishing, nor replace it. If you wish to know transcendence, forget the machine. Look for an octopus teacher. Continue reading Grace versus dystopia
The term ecofascism is often defined as “a totalitarian government that requires individuals to sacrifice their interests to the well-being of environment.” In the alternative conception, ecofascism applies to murdering environmental activists, and ignoring the slaughter and suffering of billions of nonhuman living beings. Continue reading Reversing ecofascism
… on some of our walks, a sombreness falls cloak-like. These are the ones on which we pass the signs of a recent murder or evidence of a slaughter in progress. Continue reading Life and death in the suburbs
Earth Tongues 