Endgame: Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization

"Derrick Jensen is a rare and original voice of sanity in a chaotic world. He has wisdom and wit, grace and style, and is a wonderful guide to a good life beautifully lived."-Howard Zinn

The companion piece to Derrick Jensen's immensely popular and highly acclaimed works A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe, Endgame stands to become Jensen's most influential book. Building on a series of simple but increasingly provocative premises, Jensen leaves us hoping for what may be inevitable: a return to agrarian communal life via the disintegration of civilization itself.

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Posted: Oct-03-2009

Burn It To The Ground

Human beings have been kicked out of the Garden of Eden (i.e. Ethiopia) and Derrick Jensen is pissed about it. Mr. Jensen claims that this realization that we're naked and that we should put some clothes on isn't our natural state and that we should be free to run naked in the wild forest, gather...

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Posted: Jun-02-2008

But, you've never had a gun.

J.W.K. you wrote, "Fits Like a Gun in Your Hand"How would you know?I'm not just being flipent. I'm pointing out that Greens are (compared to say, rednecks) passive in temperment and ideology. They talk and talk....Which is good, because there actions would be (like blowing up a dam) would be...

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Posted: Apr-29-2008

The problem is all around us...

Through thousands of pages, Derrick Jensen illuminates our current situation: there is a better way to live, and modern industrial civilization IS NOT IT! Each volume begins with a set of 20 premises; the chapters that follow go into extreme detail to explain and critique our role within this...

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Posted: Apr-04-2008

Incredibly insightful book!

Civilization is killing the planet. This culture will not--can not--voluntarily transform into one that is sustainable. The inevitable conclusion of an unsustainable and ever-expanding way of life is omnicide. In Endgame, Derrick Jensen asks what we are going to do about that. There is no more...

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Posted: Mar-27-2008

Where Were You Derrick?

Derrick Jensen is a brilliant thinker. "A Language Older Than Words" is essential reading, a truly brilliant book.If you have ever felt caught between the desire to spike a tree and the belief that violence only begets violence, then like me you may well have looked forward to the release of...

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Posted: Mar-27-2008

Where Were You Derrick?

Derrick Jensen is one of the most important writers of our time. "A Language Older Than Words" is essential reading, a truly brilliant book.If you have ever felt caught between the desire to spike a tree and the belief that violence only begets violence, then like me you may well have looked...

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Posted: Feb-14-2008

a bit silly

I have read most of derrick jensen's books, and he makes good arguments but they are handpicked.....he pulls down civilisation with all its ills and injustices, but offers no better solution.....He himself eats salmon but bemoans its demise....he himself likes to gamble....eat meat.....travel by...

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Posted: Dec-31-2007

Always welcome discourse

Another thought-provoking book from Derrick Jensen. He keeps us honest, or at least thinking about being honest, as the floods of consumerism and "free market" shenanigans threaten to drown us. He writes lucidly and passionately and one can't help but come away changed. And guilty about whether...

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Posted: Dec-22-2007

Go there!!

Picks up where great writers on the left like bell hooks and Michael Parenti leave off. With the fluid, engaging writing style/concept of Edward Abby, Jensen goes deeper down the Rabbit Hole than anyone and ends up in your own back yard.

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Posted: Oct-17-2007

Well-written essays from the heart, not from the brain

I want to like Derrick Jensen, I really do. I like where he's coming from. I'd probably like to be his neighbor. But, oh, are these books frustrating. (I should note that I'm reviewing both books together, which is how they should be reviewed.)His book jacket describes Jensen as "author,...

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