[P2P-F] How the 'ecosystem' myth has been used for sinister means

Mon May 30 07:45:24 CEST 2011

I find there is an interesting contradiction in Curtis' editorial,

he criticises UK Uncut for refusing to acknowledge leadership in their
group,

and at the end hails the ants that destroyed the Biosphere 2 experiment as
an example of 'collective action'

yet, UK Uncut is collective action, and ants have no leaders ...

this makes his argumentation rather paradoxical, no?

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Kevin Flanagan <kev.flanagan at gmail.com>wrote:

> How the 'ecosystem' myth has been used for sinister means - Adam
> Curtis - Guardian
>
> When, in the 1920s, a botanist and a field marshal dreamed up rival
> theories of nature and society, no one could have guessed their ideas
> would influence the worldview of 70s hippies and 21st-century protest
> movements. But their faith in self-regulating systems has a sinister
> history
>
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/may/29/adam-curtis-ecosystems-tansley-smuts
>
> Episode 1 of his current documentary is up on youtube
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX5jImWRREc
>
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