>As does any species, we maximise our genetic inheritance and expand our
niche
>through adaptation. But the advantage evolution has profferred on us --- our
>hypertrophied frontal lobes and Broca's area --- gives us an adaptational
>advantage most other species lack. Some of us feel this confers on us an
>obligation to take into consideration the rest of creation, which obligation
>might correctly foster a feeling of guilt when our activities seem to
>diminish or interupt the flow of evolution.
Just a bit of old-fashioned organizer's wisdom, from someone who can't
envision the "scenarios" after our self- and biosphere salvation, and who
keeps getting stuck on what CAN we do NOW:
Guilt is never an adequate foundation for building unity. Self-interest
is. When we can persuade people that they save themselves by saving the
biosphere, then we will go somewhere. Until then, we need to link up with
those who already have active grievances (out of self-interest) against the
plunderers--for whatever reason.
I've known plenty of people who have tried, for example, to build an
anti-racist movement based on white liberal guilt. Never works. Never
will. But when the CIO pointed out to often socially conservative and
bigoted white workers that they needed the added strength of black workers
to make demands against the bosses... well, shit happened, and fast.
"I am not a Marxist."
-Karl Marx
"Mask no difficulties."
-Amilcar Cabral
"Am I to be cursed forever with becoming
somebody else on the way to myself?
-Audre Lorde
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