[lbo-talk] 77% of Americans support the cretinous judge

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See Keith Thomas, Man and the Matural World, about the
rise of the idea of "nature" in the 17tha nd 18th
century. It is one of the great books of history.
Reverence for nature, pooey. Remember in Edmund in
Lear, "Thou, Nature, art my goddess . . . " This Red
Man Reveres Nature And Is One With The Land is very
PC, but in fact is both insultingly stereotypical and
Occidentalist. 

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Maria Gilmore wrote:
> 
> >Excuse me?  Are you familiar with traditional
> indigenous cultures such as
> >those of North America, and elsewhere too? 
> Reverence for nature has been
> >part of many cultures...
> 
> But isn't the very idea of "nature" a relatively
> modern concept, a 
> sign of our very alienation from it?
> 
> Doug
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