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NARCISSISM, SECTARIANISM & POLITICS

In previous articles on anthropocentrism I have detailed how much human-centric thinking distorts the reality of the wider ecological and biological reality of life on earth, but in addition also distorts the social reality of life within hierarchical mass societies. … Continue reading

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ANTHROPOCENTRISM AND CRISIS (2)

For successive generations of thinkers about ‘life on earth’, the dominant intellectual paradigm has been made up of human created, self-absorbed abstractions. The most dominant – all encompassing – abstraction contains, as an absolute certainty the domination of the human … Continue reading

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VICTIMISING THE VICTIMS.

A) Competitive victimhood. An awareness of the extent and depth of hierarchical mass society forms of oppression and exploitation of all organic life forms has grown considerably over the 20th century. However, this awareness is fragmented into separate categories of … Continue reading

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GLOBAL PRODUCTION & DESTRUCTION. (Part 3)

In the final part of this series, I suggest it is important to fully recognise that a significant part of the destruction taking place under the auspices of the now almost universal hierarchical mass society systems is in the realm … Continue reading

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GLOBAL PRODUCTION & DESTRUCTION (Part 2)

In part one of this series further evidence was produced to demonstrate that hierarchical mass societies prior to the ones dominated by the capitalist mode of production, were also dominated by the characteristics of increasing levels of production and destruction. … Continue reading

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THE GENESIS OF GENOCIDE (Part 2).

In part 1 of this article, the internal socio-economic form of hierarchical mass societies based upon agriculture, were shown to comprise of a top-down authoritarian class structure. The external relationships with the rest of life on earth (nature) are such … Continue reading

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THE GENESIS OF GENOCIDE. (Part 1.)

1. I recently came across the following quotation in an article on the situation in Gaza and it seemed to me to sum up, in two short sentences, a large amount anthropocentric confusion. I think it is a level of … Continue reading

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RESISTANCE & REVOLUTION. (Part 3.)

In part 1 of this series, I suggested that for any revolutionary transformation to fully occur it is not enough for its advocates to be against the existing socio-economic system either in writing or speech. Socio-economic transitions simply cannot be … Continue reading

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RESISTANCE & REVOLUTION. (Part 2)

Resistance & Revolution in the 21st Century. The human centred bourgeois ideological constructions, noted in (Part 1), have for generations been intellectually integrated into a set of largely unchallenged assumptions based upon the social domination of the ancient hierarchical mass … Continue reading

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MARX & LIFE ON EARTH. (Part 1.)

The continuing multiple crises of the capitalist mode of production continues to produce ideas about how to solve them by one means or another. Many of the means advocated are those which envisage a stage of human social evolution which … Continue reading

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