UFPPC (www.ufppc.org) Digging Deeper: August 29, 2005, 7:00 p.m.

Derrick Jensen,

The Culture of Make Believe

(White River Junction, VT: ChelseaGreen, 2004 [Originally published: Context Books, 2002]).Preface.

Lynching (ix-xi).

A LanguageOlder than Words

(2000; paper 2004)was about domestic violence; this book“is not quite so personal . . . I have notsuffered from, but rather at leastindirectly benefited by whatever racismexists in our society” (xi). “This book is aweapon. It is a gun to be put into thehands of us who wish to oppose theseatrocities, and a manual on how to useit” (xii).

Uncovering.

Epigraph: Primo Levi (2).Hate groups and hate crimes (3-13).

Utility.

Epigraph: C.W. De Kiewiet (14).Diamond mine workers (15-20).Experience of race (20-22). Race and thepolice (22-27). Prison rape (27-31).

Invisibility.

Epigraph: Yevgeny Yevteshenko (32). Ku Klux Klan (34-37).Hate groups and big business (37-40).Silence (40). Hatred of children (40-42).Rape (42-45). Prison riot (45). Policeviolence (45-47). KKK (48-52). “Nigger”(52-54). Slavery (54-63).

Contempt.

Epigraph: Aristotle (64).Hate as a river (66-71).

Power.

Epigraph: John Stuart Mill (72).Early history of slavery in North America(74-83).

Property.

Epigraph: John Locke (84).Property, “the central organizing featureof our culture” (91) (86-95).

Philanthropy.

Epigraph: R.D. Laing(96). Philanthropy as an assuagingmitigation of the effects on internationaltrade (98-107).

Giving Back the Land.

Epigraph:Psalms 2:8 (108). All land the site of massacres (110-19). TV & genocide: therole of culture (119-33)

Beginning to See.

Epigraph: RomainRolland (134). Denial (136-41). “[A] longand powerful (though sometimes hidden)tradition of protest and resistance to theinjustices, illogicalities, and craziness of our culture . . . the Cynics, Jesus, Jean- Jacques Rousseau, Henry David Thoreau,Walt Whitman, Emma Goldman, PetrKropotkin, Berthold Brecht, LewisMumford, Erich Fromm, R.D. Laing, NeilEvernden, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky,Ward Churchill, Daniel Quinn, FrancesMoore Lappé, Eduardo Galeano, JohnZernan, among many others…” (141).Resisting socialization (142-44). Wageslaves (144-46). Self-directeddissonance: self-contempt and sex (146-53).

Redemption and Failure.

Epigraph:Elder Parfrey (154). North America ourculture’s last lost chance for redemption(156-66). Killers must believe they arethe victims (166-78). Indigenouspeoples’ warfare (178-85).

Flesh.

Epigraph: Henry David Thoreau(186). “Civilization begins in conquestabroad and repression at home” ―Stanley Diamond (189). Talk withRichard Drinnon, author of

Facing West:The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building

(1980) (189-203).

Seeing Things.

Epigraph: AllanGriswold Johnson (204). Pornographyand objectification (206-16). How far canwe overcome objectification? (216-20).Martin Buber,

I and Thou

(220-21). Theproblem of routine objectification (222-29).

The Other Side of Darkness.

Epigraph: Franz Kafka (230). Giving upthe illusion that the culture can changeas a form of liberation (232-49).

Criminals.

Epigraph: George BernardShaw (250). Universality of crime (252-73).

Killers.

Epigraph: C.S. Lewis (274). Theblindness of prisons (276-79). UnionCarbide’s Bhopal plant’s leak of 40 tonsof methyl isocyanate on Dec. 3, 1984(281-95).

The Cost of Power.

Epigraph: Exodus20:3 (296). Civilization breaks the

relationship

with the enemy (298-305).

Tranquility and Felicity.

Epigraph:

Bismarck Tribune

(306). Expulsion of theLakota in 1860s to facilitate building theNorthern Pacific Railroad (308-13).

Assimilation.

Epigraph: HerbertMarcuse (314). Persecution of Chineseimmigrants (317-30). Critique of “saladbowl” metaphor (330-35).

The Impossibility of Forgetting.

Epigraph: Carl Jung (336). Collectiveamnesia toward crimes (338-47).

Production.

Epigraph: Motto over thegates at Auschwitz (348). Our societyreally a theocracy run by clerics whoworship

production

and the economy(350-73).

False Contracts.

Epigraph: ErichFromm (374). Our culture has alwaysbeen based on false contracts allegedlyguaranteeing security (376-85).

Competition.

Epigraph: ZigmundBauman (386-87). How the Irish became“white” (388-405). A culture of competition produces rage and hatred.

Distance.

Epigraph: John Lachs (406-07). J. Pierpont Morgan (408-23).

Corporations, Cops, and HungryGhosts.

Epigraph: Nicholas MurrayButler (424). Corporations not separablefrom the state (426-36). Wealth felt tobe divinely ordained (436-37).Corporations are instruments for theftincapable of stopping (438-43).

War.

Epigraph: Lewis Mumford (444).War a boon to the economy (446-61).

Resistance.

Epigraph: Lewis Mumford(462). Lynching (464-68; 478-81).Whites must commit blasphemy to belynched: the Wobblies (468-78).

Expanding the Frontier.

Epigraph:Ronald Reagan (482). “Things havechanged. Yet things are the same”;progress at home depends onexploitation abroad (488). KKK & anti-radicalism (488-97). Earth First! vs.Pacific Lumber (498-503). Effects on thesoul (503-09). “We smile, we smile, wesmile, never able to see the source of ourhatred, never seeing even that the hateexists” (509).

The View from Inside.

Epigraph:Paolo Freire (510). McDonaldization &the killing of creativity (514-19). Murderof Madge Oberholtzer (519-23). Downfallof the Klan due to economics (523-27).KKK-like activities in the third world areits equivalent (527-29).

The Closing of the Iron Cage.

Epigraph: Greek myth on the iron age(530). Dealing with rebels (532-34).Rationalization (534-44). Fascism as asolution to overcome radicalism (544-51

Holocausts.

Epigraph: A former Polishconcentration camp survivor (552). TheHolocaust (554-71; 587-97). Third-worldholocausts (571-87).

Coming Home.

Epigraph: J.C. Smuts(598). Fear for “the end of life on theplanet” (601). “[T]he next step is to get