Brimate's review
A Language Older Than Words by Derrick Jensen
Brimate's review
rating:
bookshelves: anarchism
recommended for: environmentalists, social justice activists, everyone
status: Read in November, 2007
rating:
bookshelves: anarchism
recommended for: environmentalists, social justice activists, everyone
status: Read in November, 2007
This was my first Derrick Jensen book, and it's great. It would have been mindblowing if I had read it 3-5 years ago. I already had a similar perspective to Derrick's, and knew much of the information he gave.
But the book brings everything together well: the totality of everything that's fucked up in this world---caused mainly by western civilization.
A Language Older Than Words is an amazing book, and I recommend it for everyone, especially for people who have critiques of the way things are but believe that the system can be reformed.
I look forward to reading Walking on Water, Derrick's book about teaching, because I want to teach high school, and maybe someday reading Endgame, one of his latest works.
I have seen Derrick speak twice, and I highly recommend seeing him speak. It's even better than his books.
To paraphrase one of Derrick's most important points:
Those who rose up in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and fought back had a better rate of survival than tho...more
But the book brings everything together well: the totality of everything that's fucked up in this world---caused mainly by western civilization.
A Language Older Than Words is an amazing book, and I recommend it for everyone, especially for people who have critiques of the way things are but believe that the system can be reformed.
I look forward to reading Walking on Water, Derrick's book about teaching, because I want to teach high school, and maybe someday reading Endgame, one of his latest works.
I have seen Derrick speak twice, and I highly recommend seeing him speak. It's even better than his books.
To paraphrase one of Derrick's most important points:
Those who rose up in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and fought back had a better rate of survival than tho...more
