A Language Older Than Words - Derrick Jensen [181]
The Parable of the Box
Ruth Benedict wrote up her study for a series of lectures she gave at Bryn Mawr College in 1941. Her notes were lost. But her assistant, Abraham Maslow, was able to assemble fragments. These are presented in his The Farther Reaches of Human Nature. Erich Fromm expanded on these for his necessary book The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness. LaChapelle also does a wonderful job of drawing crucial conclusions from Benedict's study in her Sacred Land, Sacred Sex.
I discovered Janus s and Bess's book, A Sexual Profile of Men in Power, in J.C. Smith's Psychoanalytic Roots of Patriarchy.
"While Mexico does . . ." is from Riordan Rhett's January 13, 1995, Mexico-Political Update.
Violence Revisited
"What I fear .. ." is from Newsweek, December 19, 1988.
"New York Stock . . ." and "It is probable . . ." are cited in Olday's March to Death.
"done in such . . ." was, ironically, in Life. It was in the November 18, 1957, issue.
"For what the . . ." is from Dunnigan and Nofi's fascinating book, Dirty Little Secrets: Military Information You're Not Supposed to Know. They've spent much of their lives working intimately with and for the military, yet they seem to understand how horrid it all is.
Lethality of plutonium assembled from Gordon Edwards article "Plutonium Anyone?" and a number of other easily accessible sources.
The biblical quotes in the paragraph beginning "There can be . .." are of course from Revelation.
The story of the largest white pine in Idaho is from the Spokesman-Review, September 7, 1997.
The story of injecting heart rot fungus is from the Eugene Register-Guard, September 10, 1997.
The information about Cassini was assembled from many web sites, and with conversations with activists opposed to it. Activists all over the world worked against Cassini. The "Stop Cassini Website" is probably as good a place as any to start looking. For the relative lethality of plutonium-238 compared to plutonium-239, I spoke with Dr. Horst Poehler.
"I feel no ..." is from Wenkam's The Great Pacific Ripoffi Corporate Rape in the Far East.
Coercion
"I have never ....” is from a letter from Jefferson to A. L. C. Destutt deTracy in 1811.
"Shell operations still..." from a May 12, 1994, memo obtained by the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People. It goes on to recommend that soldiers begin "wasting" Ogoni leaders who are "especially vocal individuals," and concludes by recommending pressure on oil companies for "prompt, regular" payments to support the cost of the military operation.
"to protect the ..." is from Noam Chomsky's, "Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order: Doctrines and Reality," Z Magazine.
"Civil government ..." is from Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, Book Five.
"Government has no ..." is from John Locke's Second Treatise of Government.
"The American national..." is from the Anderson Valley Advertiser, January 20, 1999.
Honeybees
"Happiness is love ..." is from Hesse's Reflections.
A Turning Over
"This country, with ..." is from Abraham Lincoln's first Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861.
"The tumors themselves ..." is from an Associated Press report in the Spokesman-Review, October 24, 1997.
"melted ice caps ..." is from the Spokesman-Review, October 24, 1997. The editorial's title is "Chicken Littles running scared."
"The first questions..." is from Marilyn Robinson's Mother Country. The story about the missing "suitcase bombs" is from a 60 Minutes broadcast on September 7, 1997.
Breast cancer statistics are from Samuel Epstein's monumental The Politics of Cancer Revisited.
A Life of My Own
Nothing to cite.
Interconnection
"Our goal should ..." is cited in LaChapelle's Sacred Land, Sacred Sex.
"On the terms..."