[lbo-talk] At one with my inner herbivore

[Chris Doss]

I haven't read Pollan, so I can't comment on that. However, I think that a lot of this understanding of the world is based on a medium to medium-long view of history (which corresponds to a few human generations to a few hundred years at most -- a long time for human communities but fuckall in relation to nature). In that timespan, nature can appear harmonious and cyclic, but if you extend it a bit you start to get into statistical likelihoods of plagues, natural disasters, and so forth, which are not harmonious at all (except in the VERY long term).


> 
> I will write more later about Pollan's rhetoric which
> devolves not so much
> on nature, but on the happiness of pigs, cows, sheep, etc.
> Nature in
> Pollan's world is Aristotelean in its causality.
> 
> shag
> 
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