I am curious if you visited the website promoted at the end of this video, before you posted it.
This is a viral video that promotes a fundraising site for a film called END:CIV that is based on Derrick Jensen’s book ‘Endgame’ (which is sold in two volumes: The Problem of Civilization & Resistance).
Publishers Weekly describes the book as such:
“Jensen dwells through several chapters on the need to destroy tens of thousands of river dams, whether with pickax-wielding citizen armies or through the use of well-placed explosive charges; other chapters consider how simple it would be to paralyze the American capitalist system if small activist cells were to disrupt railway, highway, pipeline and other elements of commercial infrastructure.”
Are these really the sort of ideas that First Things wishes to promote?
S.A. Are these really the sort of ideas that First Things wishes to promote?
Is FT promoting such ideas by posting a humorous video about Star Wars? I certainly don’t think so.
We don’t endorse every view in the articles that we link to, much less the additional information that might be found on a website that is mentioned in a video (if that was our policy we could only link to our own website).
We trust that our readers are discerning enough to know which viewpoints we would and would not endorse and which they should take seriously for themselves.
Rather disturbing, don’t you think? I mean, the moral of the story, only thinly veiled by the humor, seems to be that environmentalists will never accomplish anything until they take up arms and cut the pacificist “nonsense.”
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September 21st, 2009 | 9:20 am
I am curious if you visited the website promoted at the end of this video, before you posted it.
This is a viral video that promotes a fundraising site for a film called END:CIV that is based on Derrick Jensen’s book ‘Endgame’ (which is sold in two volumes: The Problem of Civilization & Resistance).
Publishers Weekly describes the book as such:
“Jensen dwells through several chapters on the need to destroy tens of thousands of river dams, whether with pickax-wielding citizen armies or through the use of well-placed explosive charges; other chapters consider how simple it would be to paralyze the American capitalist system if small activist cells were to disrupt railway, highway, pipeline and other elements of commercial infrastructure.”
Are these really the sort of ideas that First Things wishes to promote?
September 21st, 2009 | 9:26 am
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September 21st, 2009 | 9:36 am
S.A. Are these really the sort of ideas that First Things wishes to promote?
Is FT promoting such ideas by posting a humorous video about Star Wars? I certainly don’t think so.
We don’t endorse every view in the articles that we link to, much less the additional information that might be found on a website that is mentioned in a video (if that was our policy we could only link to our own website).
We trust that our readers are discerning enough to know which viewpoints we would and would not endorse and which they should take seriously for themselves.
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September 21st, 2009 | 3:57 pm
Rather disturbing, don’t you think? I mean, the moral of the story, only thinly veiled by the humor, seems to be that environmentalists will never accomplish anything until they take up arms and cut the pacificist “nonsense.”
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