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Erik Lindberg's Blog – December 2010 Archive (4)
Post Carbon Politics Part II: The Train of Ancient and Venerable Prejudices
The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, partriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his ‘natural superiors. . . . The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto looked up to with reverent awe. . . . The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil. . . . All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and…
ContinueAdded by Erik Lindberg on December 22, 2010 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment
Letter to a brother-in-law
One final (I promise) thought about all this. Thank you for the discussion. It is valuable to be challenged and I have had to think about things. I appreciate your willingness to engage these issues. This morning I woke up thinking about my ambivalence to our current “system” and the “lifestyle” I am able to extract from it, and my corresponding ambivalence to a crash of this sytem.
When I drive west from my house only a few miles, I enter what is… Continue
Added by Erik Lindberg on December 16, 2010 at 7:22am — No Comments
Post Carbon Politics Part I: Sue Lowden's Chickens
Post Carbon Politics Part I: Sue Lowden’s Chickens
Choose any political and social issue. Without much thought you can probably determine what the contrasting liberal and conservative stance on it is likely to be. The entire world can, in a sense, be divided into liberal/conservative, whether the issue is economic, moral, religious, environmental, even scientific. This has been the case, certainly and dishearteningly, with climate change. So…
ContinueAdded by Erik Lindberg on December 12, 2010 at 10:24am — No Comments
Post Carbon Politics, Intro
The upshot from our listserv discussion, here at Transition Milwaukee, is that there is no consensus, not even the sort of operating consensus that Greer might agree to, about what the appropriate or… Continue
Added by Erik Lindberg on December 4, 2010 at 6:19pm — No Comments
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