[lbo-talk] At one with my inner herbivore (was: Pollan: WITBD toreform the industrial food system)

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 14 09:27:12 PDT 2008


That might have something to do with your rather odd psychology.

--- On Tue, 10/14/08, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
> I simply do not kow what people are talkig about when they
> speak of
> "alienatio from nature" or (Joanna's phrase)
> "our relationship to
> nature." Joanna also speaks of alienated labor, which
> makes sense if
> speaking of _social_ relations but no sense at all if
> identified with
> "harmoious terms with the earth," which is
> meaingless to me.
>
> How can one be alieanated from oe's ownn hand or foot
> or hair or lips --
> they are nature. In fact it is a simple oxymoron to speak
> of separation
> from nature. It obscures the corruptio of _human social
> relationns"
> (which have nothinng to do with a separable nature) to
> yammer about
> nature.
>
> Carrol
>
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