Comments on: On Speciesism, Organicism, and Current Intellectual Thought

By: Albert

Albert — Mon, 24 May 2010 16:04:43 +0000

In substantive part, at least, this is an attempt in continuity with modern tendencies to elevate diversity by making all differences equivalently valid.

Unfortunately, intentions to respect diversity and difference notwithstanding, such an approach ultimately destroys diversity by making everything equivalently meaningful and therefore meaningless.

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The New Dualisms » First Thoughts | A First Things Blog — Mon, 24 May 2010 12:31:44 +0000

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By: The New Dualisms | Mere Orthodoxy

The New Dualisms | Mere Orthodoxy — Sun, 23 May 2010 23:16:56 +0000

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By: Anthony Mator

Anthony Mator — Sun, 23 May 2010 16:53:04 +0000

Can you hear the sound of the world’s smallest fiddle playing for the poor souls who are worried that Queer Theory and Ecological Criticism have not been sufficiently integrated?

By: Feeney

Feeney — Sun, 23 May 2010 12:54:09 +0000

Can’t wait to discuss these exciting new ideas with my friends at work!

By: Craig Payne

Craig Payne — Sun, 23 May 2010 12:50:38 +0000

“Queer ecology will worry away at the human-nonhuman boundary, too. How can we ever distinguish properly between humans and nonhumans? Doesn’t the fact that identity is in the eye of the beholder put serious constraints on such distinctions?”

Interspecies marriage, anyone?

But of course, acceptance of gay marriage will never lead to such a thing, we have been assured.

By: David T. Koyzis

David T. Koyzis — Sat, 22 May 2010 23:38:41 +0000

“Queer ecology must go wider, embracing silicon as well as carbon, for instance. . . .”

Why stop at silicon? Is not the making of any and every distinction a manifestation of some discriminatory -ism? If so, we must then take care to distinguish ourselves from those who make distinctions to avoid falling into the next -ism, right? Proponents of queer ecology can easily declare victory, because the judgement that their project has failed would have to be based on distinguishing between success and failure, which is of course discriminatory. They can’t lose.

It all makes sense in a perverse sort of way. It was Chesterton who once said that the madman is not the one who has lost his reason but the one who has lost everything except his reason.

By: David Paul Regier

David Paul Regier — Sat, 22 May 2010 23:12:47 +0000

What a beautiful expression of Unitarian thought.