Too Resist is All

[hankhank at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu]

On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Steelhead wrote:
> 
> The kind of "one world culture" environmentalism that you are talking about
> is certainly a big part of the problem--not the solution. 
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> And what are you talking about when you say "that doesn't validate
> inconsiderate responses to cultural preservationists?" I write about
> preserving culture all the time. If you ask me, the critical theorists are
> the ones who are assisting the cultural genocide that is sweeping the
> planet. 

I experienced at the Kansas City Am Studies Assoc Conference something
that may be worth mentioning here. (Terry C, this is a citation from a
mailing I sent you last month -- don't be shocked to see it on the list.)

"I did manage to witness an interesting fight between Andrew Ross and the 
moderator of his panel, some top environmental historian from UofKansas
called Worster; well actually it was not Ross but Donald Pease [for those
who don't know: one of the leading Cultural Studies/American Renaissance
fellas around -- who, like Ross, deserves all Steely's scorn] who exploded. 
See, Ross gave his paper on the deliberate global capitalistic maintenance
of scarcity, and how environmentalists with their "good" scarcity  have
often converged with food industries, etc. This was too much for Worster,
who decided to give a *long* comment of his own which was not in the
program, barring thus general discussion on Ross's paper, which in its
turn made Pease yell "This is a set-up! This is a set-up!" and leave the
room. Etc."

"Heikki"

Heikki