This poem cam into my lap this week (via Pieratt & Kottke) and hit me square in the chest.
I had many thoughts to share about this poem and where it intersects with my work and Berry's ideology. About what we think of as necessary sacrifices for sustainability, on individual-scale vs cultural-scale sacrifice, on pastoralism, on leverage and affecting change. But it got preachy and self-indulgent and then I get in my head about performativity and ugh!!! Forget it.
One of my biggest goals in writing here weekly is to "make public," inasmuch as you all, reading this, are now a social body with some stake in the topics.
I would love if you can bring these questions to a close friend to talk about them and about what answers might actually look like. See how firm an answer you can mutually agree upon to answer each of Berry's questions. See what aspects of the questions you'd like to refute, or what aspects make you squirm.
Back to you,
Lukas
P.S.: Two readings this week are swimming around the same headspace for me, if you want more: one, two.
I had many thoughts to share about this poem and where it intersects with my work and Berry's ideology. About what we think of as necessary sacrifices for sustainability, on individual-scale vs cultural-scale sacrifice, on pastoralism, on leverage and affecting change. But it got preachy and self-indulgent and then I get in my head about performativity and ugh!!! Forget it.
One of my biggest goals in writing here weekly is to "make public," inasmuch as you all, reading this, are now a social body with some stake in the topics.
I would love if you can bring these questions to a close friend to talk about them and about what answers might actually look like. See how firm an answer you can mutually agree upon to answer each of Berry's questions. See what aspects of the questions you'd like to refute, or what aspects make you squirm.
Back to you,
Lukas
P.S.: Two readings this week are swimming around the same headspace for me, if you want more: one, two.