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Frederick Turner’s “Beyond Geography: The Western...<br />Frederick Turner’s “Beyond Geography: The Western Spirit Against Wilderness” (1980) might serve as a prescient explanation of this very proposal as it tracks the human conception of nature as something used by (marshaled?) a divinity as punishment and as a consequence creating an antagonism in “belief.” He tracks this through the Crusades and Columbus as well and into the “New World” which he describes, wonderfully, as “in fact the old world, the oldest world we know, the world the West had once been.” He also, in passing, makes the point that “genocide” is an unknown concept in polytheistic cultures. Further, there is the proposition that the erasure of “mythic” time, replaced by “history” leads to the idea that there is only one beginning and only one ending and that we are coursing towards it. The mythic is cyclical and renewing by comparison. One formula offered: the only product of arrogance is waste.DOUGLAS STORMnoreply@blogger.com