Julien Pierrehumbert wrote:
> Tom,
>
>
> >anthropocentric
Tom wants X (anything he cares to name). Tom is
an anthropos. Hence Tom's desire of X (be it a
biscuit for dinner, the annihilation of the human species,
or anything in between) is an anthropocentric desire.
Every word on every post on this list is anthropocentric.
To speak of a human not being anthropocentric is
incoherent.
We don't know quite as much about taking power as
Stan suggests, partly because it is so hard to grasp
the principles as opposed to the specific application
of that principle behind the practice of Ho & Mao
& Fidel & Amilcar. But we do belong to a 200
year old tradition in which that knowledge is
implicit -- and so those of us who have engaged in
enough political practice to make at least partial
sense of our tradition *can* usually recognize
what *won't* work. And if you try to build a
movement on the basis of sneers at anthropocentrism,
however defined, I don't want to be standing to
near you when the human avalanche hits.
Carrol
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