HeyJaredRobert Jensen
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Four Questions in the Universal Quest for Meaning | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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[This essay is adapted from This I Don’t Believe: A Fulfilling Life without Meaning.] In the nearly universal search for meaning, four questions seem inescapable. Is there a God, understood as a divine force, entity, or being that created the universe and has the power to direct events in it? Are we spiritual beings, with spirituality understood as a nonphysical plane of existence in which the concept of a soul is intelligible? Does capital-N Nature—a belief that the larger living world has an i
Domination/Subordination Dynamics: Five Foundational Books Challenging Illegitimate Authority | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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Many of the books that shaped my work as a professor, author, and activist came into my life during my first two years of graduate school (1988-90), the most exciting period of concentrated learning I’ve ever experienced. As I write in my new book, This I Don’t Believe: A Fulfilling Life without Meaning, I got to grad school and quickly realized that I was “an undereducated person getting a second chance to learn”: I didn’t really start thinking—in the sense of a disciplined process of trying to
Humans’ Predicament in 3 Phrases | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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With age, I’ve become more aware of the world’s complexity but also better equipped to come to simple, albeit painful, conclusions. Everyone understands (or should understand) that our reality—both the physical world around us and the social world we build—is complex beyond human understanding. But based on what we can know, some conclusions seem unavoidable to me. In my new book, This I Don’t Believe: A Fulfilling Life without Meaning, I offer three of those observations. –Humans are drawing do
Wendell Berry: ‘Stay away from anything that obscures the place it is in’ | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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I think of Wendell Berry every time I use my chainsaw. Berry, the novelist/essayist and unofficial poet laureate of the sustainable agriculture movement, died this week at 92. I met him several times through my association with The Land Institute and visited their Kentucky home to write a profile of his wife, Tanya. But my main connection to Berry is through his writing. Back to my chainsaw. I lived in cities most of my life, including when I was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
My Ayn Rand Phase: The Dangers of ‘Dead Dogma’ | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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John Stuart Mill long ago warned that when we are so certain of the truth of an idea that we reject discussion, the idea—even if it is true—“will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.” After nearly seven decades on Earth, I can see that at various times I gave in to that temptation. As I age, I hope I’m getting better at recognizing that most everything is debatable. But in those decades, I’ve often been too cocky. The first, and in some ways most embarrassing, example of my unwarranted i
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