12 June 2020


Hot and humid. Watching thunderstorms passing us by. We sit outside after dark and talk about people who have died, how we miss them and how happy their lives were or not. 
This is a different kind of summer.








We didn't really notice very much in the way we designed towns and streets, houses, drains. Didn't really design with anything in mind but us lot. And so, the idea that "outside your house is the outside" isn't quite true. It's actually still human centric social space and can be very dangerous for other life forces.

The end of the world has already happened. The climate crisis is a sign that things have already gone drastically wrong in our, or at least the white western humans' relationships with the world. That doesn't mean it's too late. It just means that the world we thought to live in turns out not to be quite as it seemed. There's this thing that we call anthropocentrism which is the notion of putting human beings at the top of the hierarchy. The end of the world is the end of the idea that humans are the only people who have a world on this planet.

Timothy Morton

8 comments:

ellen abbott said...

we humans are toast I think. it's too late for us as we arrogantly refuse to admit that we are our worst enemy. civilization will be collapsing sooner rather than later say a bunch of experts. I wont see it unless it happens in the next 20 years but my kids probably will and the grandkids definitely. I have no faith in the collective human race to be able to do what needs to be done. survivors will have to live underground like so many of the sci-fi books I've read.

Elizabeth said...

I think you'd enjoy David Lynch's daily weather report. Look it up on his YouTube station. It's awesome -- a bit like Waiting for Godot in Pandemic Times.

am said...

Thank you, Sabine.

"... The end of the world is the end of the idea that humans are the only people who have a world on this planet."

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“Nature knows that people are a tide that swells and in time will ebb, and all their works dissolve ... As for us: We must uncenter our minds from ourselves. We must unhumanize our views a little and become confident as the rock and ocean that we are made from.”
(Robinson Jeffers)

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“The beauty of things was born before eyes and sufficient to itself; the heartbreaking beauty

Will remain when there is no heart to break for it.”
(Robinson Jeffers)

"Birdland" gave me something I didn't know I needed the first time I heard it. That must have been in the early 1980s, as the darkness that had consumed my life for so long started to lift. Thank you for making it possible for me to experience its timeless energy again.

"This is a different kind of summer."

Anonymous said...

I keep hearing the song "It's The End of the World as we know it" in my head these days. I don't think it's ever going to be the same, not with the pandemic and our exploitative ways of being.
I haven't heard Birdland in so many, many years. Thank you for the reminder.

beth coyote said...

Indeed.

Secret Agent Woman said...

I don't hold out a lot of hope for humanity. But once we're gone, the world will eventually recover.

Steve Reed said...

And yet there are still people who hew to the Biblical ideas of humans being given "dominion" over the Earth and all its creatures. Argh!

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