Love the bit about the danger of metaphor near the end. That's an unimaginably useful and loving insight
@darcyschneider8525 Жыл бұрын
I like the term humilicene rather than anthropocene -- as the waking up to all that we got wrong in our anthropocentric view of life on this planet -- as a new beginning by proceeding with humility in a process of discovery to understand what our blind spots have hidden from us. Thank you for this.
@patfrench80466 ай бұрын
Thank you for speaking to us.
@raffacasting Жыл бұрын
I just found Abrams recently via his book Spell of Sensuous and I am in Awe, not because it is something new for me but because is something I was sensing since I was a child but I could not explain. I could see that the more I learned to speak with my fellow humans,less magical my world became. I still remember one day maybe with 5 years old when I was telling a friend that a platic puppet I had was actualy alive and he use to talk with me. In that moment we both looked to the puppet and it moved and talked, I was as astonished as him by observing it. Was mere seconds but was like magical.
@catherinesanchez6024 жыл бұрын
A huge thank you to David for the closing remarks around the term "Anthropocene", especially the words "We broke it, we own it, it's up to us to manage this". That seems to be the attitude of so many people who genuinely care about life on Earth and really want to help, but haven't spotted the danger of falling back into the exact same ignorant arrogance that is responsible for all the horrors. If we allow ourselves to be distracted by supposed "solutions" coming from within the unchanged civilized consciousness we will never even try to do the one thing that is needed, which is to take on the challenge of breaking out of our cultural conditioning and opening ourselves to the greater intelligence of the Earth and the other beings all around us.
@jylyhughes50854 жыл бұрын
A magnificent towering being of a book! Thank you Richard and David for such an intimate and delightful talk. David, both of your books are so utterly gorgeous. My life has changed dramatically through yours and Richard's books ..... Thank you ... xxx
@alantlevin2 жыл бұрын
Wonderful to see two beautiful minds appreciating each other and the intelligence of all life.
@verdiwyld4 жыл бұрын
Profoundly thought provoking discussion, Thank you. Words can be strange attractors. Humelecene (hope the spelling is ok) is a beautiful word. Perhaps the Ecozoic Era 🌱 is another contender 🙂
@codeandcoffeh4 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much !!!! This was really powerful and I really appreciate what both of you bring to the world, if not just a peculiar receptivity to the beauty beyond you.
@benjaminlaier4 жыл бұрын
So inspiring.
@sugarstick69904 жыл бұрын
The term Anthropocene suggests an indictment of all people. We, the people of these developed and... developing modern cultures, do not represent all those other myriad humans. Especially those whose places "we" appropriated and degraded. We are not Humanity! I am very grateful to you. Your eloquence and knowledge ring true.
@rolanddane50153 жыл бұрын
This is great! Thank you....🤙
@markbenjamin92444 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this, David! Regarding the Anthropocene, are you familiar with Donna Harroway's definition of this epoch as the "Chthulucene"? : wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Chthulucene. Her proposed definition seems to take into account the misdirection of human enterprise and seat it in a context that holds the meaning of our being humus/earth beings.