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Category: Human supremacy

Animal rights, Human supremacy

The death of Freya

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

Patrick Curry29 August 202211 January 2023
Human supremacy, Mass extinction

Don’t lose heart

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

Eileen Crist9 August 202211 January 2023
Animal rights, Human supremacy, Values

What change? Whose reconciliation?

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?

Patrick Curry21 June 202211 January 2023
Human alienation, Human supremacy, Mass extinction

Broken mirror

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

Eileen Crist7 December 202110 February 2022
Human supremacy, Identity politics

Earthling (we/us)

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)

Eileen Crist26 May 202121 August 20223 Comments
Animal rights, Factory farms, Human supremacy

Shutter the factory farms

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

Eileen Crist26 February 20211 January 2023
Artificial intelligence, Human supremacy

Grace versus dystopia

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

Eileen Crist17 November 20201 January 20231 Comment
Ecocide, Human supremacy, Identity politics

Reversing ecofascism

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

Helen Kopnina9 November 202010 February 2022
Ecocide, Human supremacy, Values

Life and death in the suburbs

… 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

Joe Gray22 April 202010 February 2022

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