p. 464 Of BRIGHT GREEN LIES

i've been reading derrick jensen's most recent book on and off for the past few weeks. not terribly enthused about it because 1) i'm already well familiar with the ruse that is 'green' energy from watching PLANET OF THE HUMANS, reading Ozzie Zehner's book, and other sources, and 2) it's so flocking depressing, how global industrial civilization is destroying life on this planet, how little is being done to stop or even slow the destruction, and last but certainly not least, how willfully or hopelessly clueless the vast majority of humans are to this existential crisis. Which brings me to my brief and bitter points, taken from p. 464 of BRIGHT GREEN LIES

First, there's this observation from Derrick: 'i'm increasingly convinced that within this culture the primary use of human intelligence is to try to rationalize whatever behavior we already wanted to do.'

i'm on board with that. i'm just blunter, less nuanced, and more vulgar in stating that sheeple generally have shit fer brains, and there's no cure for stupid-crazy. Which reminds me of something else i wanted to bring up: in the previous chapter Derrick writes about (sur)real solutions, basically that everyone who knows and cares to must do their part to preserve wildlife and end industrial civilization, insisting there's still reason for hope, claiming (dubiously?) that given a chance to re-wild, earth's topsoils can quickly regain health and sequester enough carbon to save us. Here he's being a BRIGHT GREEN OPTIMIST i disagree with...

Second, there's a quote from Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon and supposedly the world's richest man to the effect that we should continue growing our energy use and population, showing he's as clueless as they come, and that when it comes to topics that are relevant to our survival, there's probably little correlation between being 'successful' financially and having a clue, which certainly is discouraging, not that it's news to me or to u. Just another reason to be overwhelmingly pessimistic, convinced we're dystopian and doomed.