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[lola_granola]

Interesting article on environmentalism as an outlet for our culturally imposed religious tendencies.

Warning: It does wander at the end. The first two-thirds are worth reading, though.

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[ormondsacker]

This is me raising my eyebrow just a little bit.

Paragraphs 1-14: Environmentalism can become an outlet for those pent-up Nietzschean dogmatic neuroses we thought we had left behind.

Paragraph 15: As can dozens of other things!

Paragraph 16: Buuut, environmentalism!

Today I read a series of posts from two left-wing warriors decrying a Gitmo torture report because it was referenced approvingly by Andrew Sullivan hissss. Tomorrow I may encounter a scary dogmatic environmentalist or social conservative (although it's all theological with them, par. 14, so only to be expected) or... what else is in paragraph 15 there? Fitness fascists, good, and people that hate the octomom and child-free activists and anti-Walmart activists and free-market libertarians and Harry/Hermione shippers and... There are many colors in the rainbow of holier-than-thou dicks, is what I'm going for here

[ormondsacker]

That was me raising my eyebrow a lot.

[lola_granola]

I thought it was interesting, maybe because I've read hardly any philosophy, so the ideas were new to me. But yes, at the end I started going, "Wait, what is this article about, again? Was there a focus?"

[ormondsacker]

Yuh. I am down with his argument that those god-n-guilt Neitzchean impulses don't automatically vanish in the modern leftie atheist. But I don't think he supports his contention that environmentalism is uniquely the new Catholic particularly well; especially, as you say, towards the end.

This has been me arguing about a guy on the internet. How're you?

[anonymous]

(from Andrew