Endgame Volume I_ The Problem of Civilization - Derrick Jensen [242]
333. I’ve never understood why more people don’t do protests. They don’t really accomplish anything, but they’re pretty darn fun.
334. Of course we can say the same thing about the Cleveland Indians and many other sports teams.
335. As complete and permanent as that of the vivisectors themselves.
336. Rape racks are most commonly used to impregnate factory sows.
337. It didn’t help to write them letters begging them to do the right thing. Nor did it help to hold signs and placards. Nor did it help to burn candles, say prayers, and send them lovingkindness™. It didn’t even work to send them faxes.
338. Planck.
339. My thanks to Gabrielle Benton.
340. Even more important than GNP. Even more important than the Dow. Even more important than jobs. Even more important than that really sexy man or woman who will be attracted to you if you buy the right toothpaste.
Romantic Nihilism
341. Nizza Thobi, “Chanah Senesh,” http://www.nizza-thobi.com/Senesh_engl/html (accessed December 3, 2004).
342. Did that former agent even read any of the book?
343. For an entertaining article about this phrase, see Shulman. Here’s what Emma Goldman actually wrote:
“At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening a cousin of Sasha [Alexander Berkman], a young boy, took me aside. With a grave face, as if he were about to announce the death of a dear comrade, he whispered to me that it did not behoove an agitator to dance. Certainly not with such reckless abandon, anyway. It was undignified for one who was on the way to become a force in the anarchist movement. My frivolity would only hurt the Cause.
“I grew furious at the impudent interference of the boy. I told him to mind his own business, I was tired of having the Cause constantly thrown into my face. I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from conventions and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement should not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it. ‘I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody’s right to beautiful, radiant things.’ Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world—prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own comrades I would live my beautiful ideal” (Goldman, 56).
Neck Deep in Denial
344. The Sun, March 2004, 48.
345. For a stirring and extraordinary description of this by two exceedingly amazing guys, see Jensen and Draffan, Machine.
346. Including “Fair Trade: Economic Justice in the Marketplace,” Global Exchange, http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/stores/fairtrade.html (accessed March 16, 2002).
347. Some sources say fifty.
348. My description of these four groups is from Jeannette Armstrong, by way of a personal communication with Zenobia Barlow, July 15, 2001.
349. Mumford, Technics, 186.
350. Apologies to Joseph Heller.
351. (in all the bad movies)
Making It Happen
352. Anderson Valley Advertiser, October 1, 2003, 5.
353. U.S. et al. v. Goering et al.
354. Tokyo War Crimes Trial Decision.
355. We can know precisely what many of these tortures were, not only because many members of the Nazi “security” agencies were later recruited by other governments (notably the U.S.) to continue plying their trade for “freedom and democracy,”™ and not only because the Nazis sometimes recorded their atrocities in as compulsive detail as sometimes do the Americans, but also because at least one of the members of the resistance—Major Fabian von Schlabrendorff—survived through a miraculous string of events (just one part of which, to give you a taste, was that the Allies happened to bomb the court and kill the judge just as Schlabrendorff was about to be sentenced to death (the judge was found clutching Schlabrendorff’s file in his cold hands). In his monumental (and essential) The History of the German Resistance, 1933-1945,