‘My Name Is Chellis and I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization’ – A Book in Five Minutes No.10
Channel: ramblinactivist
Date: 2022-03-29

Ramblinactivist 2022/11, 29th March 2022

This second in a techno-critical review trilogy might seem unrelated to the previous book on ‘The Luddites’; and yet it provides the same kind of criticism from a completely different angle – that of ecopsychology, and the trauma that the modern lifestyle creates for most of those subject to it.

This was one of the first books I read which clearly explained the basis for an indigenous, ‘non-Western’ world-view: Not in terms of some analgesic ‘spiritual’ practise to be appropriated for the weekend; but of an all-encompassing way of looking a the Earth, and our position within that system – which should form the heart of our daily interactions with the world around us.

Almost three decades from its publication, this is a book that still needs to be read today, and that still has a place within the debate on change; to allow people to look inwards, with a fresh perspective, at how the world endures through the trauma it creates – and why letting go of that world is the most effective means to shed the pain that modern-day existence inflicts.

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