Monday, February 14, 2022

Alienation and Exceptionalism


Richard Powers is a powerful writer (yes, I'm aware of the aptronym). He is also a powerful advocate for finding our connection to the natural world.

Through his fiction he nudges us to find a way to rejoin nature, and not regard ourselves as separate and exceptional. In his interviews, he reminds us, 'after all, we are not the only game in town'; that it's time to reframe our place in the natural world.



Most potently, he asserts:

Life is something we need to stop correcting.

and

Life on earth is more resourceful and capable than we think.

 

I'm in awe.


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